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 editorial in the state-run Rodong Sinmun yesterday stated that posters with the slogan, “Let Us Bring About a Radical Turn in the Building of an Economic Giant with the Same Spirit and Mettle as Were Displayed in Conquering Space!" have started appearing across the country.  The editorial explained,