In creating a state cult around himself, Kim blended communism with something that, with rich irony, most closely resembled Japan's emperor system between the wars: he became a neo-Confucian sun king, the nation's moral as well as political father.
The second part of his big-tent party's proposed "new deal" includes pumping money into renewable energy research and other green technologies, as well as money for robotics and medical research, in an attempt to give Japan the lead in emerging industries also identified by America's neo-New Dealers as promising industries.