After rapid initial work last fall but slow progress in recent months on a highway connecting the New Yalu River Bridge from China to North Korean roads, recent satellite imagery reveals new developments are underway on the project.

A large area of land near the paved end of the bridge began to be cleared in late February and has taken shape in recent weeks as a likely candidate location for North Korea’s customs facilities, the imagery suggests.

A small road was also built from the highway towards a complex of structures under the bridge