With the one year anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death fast approaching, official celebrations of his life are underway – and even the fashion accessories that defined him are getting reverential treatment.

An article (and video above) released by the Voice of Korea, one of North Korea’s official propaganda outlets, says that Kim’s parka “shows what an arduous road of patriotic devotion he covered to defend the socialist fatherland.”

Seen in propaganda photos whenever the temperature got a bit chillier, Kim began wearing the parka shortly after the demise of his father, Kim Il Sung.