The Daily Telegraph: Lenin and Karl Marx statues removed from North Korea's Square

The austere images of two of the founding fathers of communism were first taken down in the summer but have never been replaced.
Lenin and Marx had glared out over the square - used for military march-pasts and mass rallies in support of the regime - for decades, despite the Workers' Party of Korea revising its charter in 1980 to replace their concepts with those of Kim Il-sung.
Communism has been replaced by the home-grown philosophy summed up as "juche," meaning the spirit of self-reliance.
Despite deviating from the teachings of Marx and Lenin, the pictures had remained.