despite its exterior makeover , new korea still managed to cling to a few of the more relaxed attitudes of its predecessor when it came to human considerations : life in new korea was still valued fairly cheap , and the buildings inspector , with a phrase that could have come straight from a juche textbook , such were its sentiments based on self-reliance , and which would have had the great leader smiling in his grave , proclaimed , that it was the responsibility of the individual to ensure that they did not fall from any of the external decorative features of the wendelson building .