While Mao Zedong may have created the highly accessible “little red book” for communists around the world, North Korea has re-wrapped Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s speech into a “little green book” designed solely for North Korean citizens. And although many North Korea watchers regarded Kim Jong Un’s speech as nothing more than empty rhetoric, the transformation of the speech into a book and posters suggests that North Korean propagandists did not take his remarks lightly.

Consistent with the theme of North Korea – The “Space Conquerors“, an editorialin the state-run Rodong Sinmun yesterday stated that posters with