North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivered a key policy speech at the conclusion of a five-day party meeting on Friday, with a long editorial on his remarks in the Rodong Sinmun sketching out the party’s agenda for this year.

The editorial notably includes next to nothing on foreign or inter-Korean policy, instead devoting significant space to economic and agricultural matters. Yet on this, the country’s leaders manifest what one might describe as a grim lack of new ideas. Swap out some photos and change some more modern language and one is left with a