Like Japanese kabuki theatre, in which characters use exaggerated gestures to energise the audience, the country's statistics unrealistically magnify both good news and bad.
Apart from pledging to allow family reunions and Tours of his country (managed by Hyundai), the North Korean leader promised to "energise" the joint inter-Korean industrial park in Kaesong.
The party's ticket, his staff add, will energise particular constituencies, what with a black candidate for senator, a woman for governor and a Jew for attorney-general.
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