'the limelight of the world'

"North Korea calls for peace, warns "nuclear holocaust" may be alternative"
By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013824326_nkorea02.html

"The annual statement, which ran to more than 5,900 words when translated to English, offered a glimpse into the propaganda machine of an impoverished nation commanded by a man who claims something close to a divine right to rule.
In a land of labor camps and torture cells that mostly sits in the dark once night falls, the essay proclaimed the 'great victories' of North Korea and added that 'in the crucible of the complicated 21st century, our country has always stood in the limelight of the world.' "