Recent articles in North Korean media and satellite imagery indicate that large-scale upgrades to a vegetable cooperative farm near Pyongyang – which include swimming pools and a theater – were completed in recent months.

The Jangchon Cooperative farm, in the capital’s Sadong district, has been the focus of numerous articles by DRPK media, since Kim Jong Un ordered upgrades to the facility in 2014.

“(Kim Jong Un) set forth a task to build the farm into an exemplary farm and icon of greenhouse vegetable production when providing field guidance to the farm associated with the immortal history