““Everywhere we heard the endless drip drip drip of that wretched word Juche. “Our Juche farming method . . . the revolutionary Juche approach to production . . .” It was always the Juche something or other. Everybody nodded, but no one ever seemed to question what the word actually meant. The word could be translated in a number of ways. It could mean self-reliance, autonomy, independence, or responsibility—all the things we weren’t allowed to have.””
