Though the Juche viewpoint on the essence of the world and the fundamental principle of the Juche philosophy are closely related, they are not identical.
The Juche viewpoint on the essence of the world is the viewpoint on the fundamental features and appearance of the world, whereas the fundamental principle of the Juche philosophy gives solution to the problems of the relation between the world and man.
The fundamental principle of philosophy is a principle forming the basis of relevant philosophy while running through in philosophy and the essence of the world is an important principle of philosophical outlook on the world. The fundamental principle of philosophy serves as the ideological, theoretical and methodological bases and the essence of the world is a principle clarified by the former.
The essence of the world elucidated by the Juche philosophy is a principle explained with the fundamental principle of the Juche philosophy as its ideological, theoretical and methodological bases, whereas the fundamental principle of the Juche philosophy serves as the basis of the Juche philosophy and runs through in the Juche philosophy at large.
Hence, the Juche philosophy defines a principle that man is the master of everything and decides everything as its fundamental principle and it as the Juche viewpoint on the essence of the world that the world is dominated and transformed by man.
