This is part one of a two-part series examining goings-on around North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s luxury compound in Wonsan. Read part two here.

Updated May 1 at 18:25 KST to include an image of Kim’s main Wonsan villa with Princess yachts on hand on the same day as the July 2019 Hodo villa gathering.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had a new villa complex built at a secluded coastal spot near Wonsan last year, NK Pro analysis of satellite imagery reveals, with one of his leisure boats visiting the site each summer since