This is part of NK News’ series of opinion and analysis of the first five years of Kim Jong Un’s rule.

It’s interesting to imagine what the late founder of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, would have thought walking around Pyongyang in 2016.

Quite a lot of it would have been familiar to him: the marshall music, the colorful propaganda, the towering testaments to the strength of the ruling party and the Korean people, for instance. All would have been firmly in keeping with the country he spent his life building.

But to the late Great Leader and to his