The Juche Tower is dedicated to the Juche Idea, the idea that man is free and independent and master of his own destiny. The tower was also completed in 1982 for Kim Il-Sung’s 70th birthday and also contains 25,550 bricks for the same reason. It is less than one meter taller than the Washington Monument. In front of the tower stands a statue of three workers; one holding a hammer, one a sickle (both familiar symbols of communism) and one a writer’s brush (to add the intellectual worker). These three symbols appear on the Worker’s Party flag, the leading political party of North Korea.