North Korean television published the first images of two new skyscraper street projects and a large-scale greenhouse farm in Pyongyang this week, announcing new deadlines of February and April.

Korean Central Television aired photos on Jan. 1 of building exteriors that appear nearly complete at the youth-built Sopho street project, stage two of the Hwasong District 50,000-home project and the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm on the eastern outskirts of the capital.

State media coverage of a year-end party plenumthe day before declared these three top construction projects of 2023 as major successes despite their unfinished status, as the state promotes