North Korean efforts to connect a $350 million suspension bridge partially completed in 2013 but never opened have appeared to slow significantly since December, high-resolution satellite imagery indicates.

That’s despite initially rapid progress, which between September and December 2019 saw a pathway cleared and hardened-dirt roadway laid to connect the bridge to a national highway south of Sinuiju.

Though some houses had been demolished to make way for the connecting road last September, recent satellite imagery shows that asphalting of the hardened-dirt roadway had still not begun as of late February.

Furthermore, no signs of