Juche Tower

Juche Tower

The Juche Tower at night
39°01′03″N 125°45′49″E / 39.0176°N 125.7637°E / 39.0176; 125.7637
Location	Pyongyang, North Korea
Designer	Kim Jong Il
Material	Granite and white stone
Height	170 metres (560 ft)
Completion date	1982 (1982)
Dedicated to	Juche
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	주체사상탑
Hancha	主體思想塔
Revised Romanization	Juche Sasangtap
McCune–Reischauer	Chuch'e Sasangt'ap

The Juche Tower (more formally, the Tower of the Juche Idea), completed in 1982, is a monument in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and is named after the ideology of Juche introduced by the country's first leader, Kim Il Sung.