The small town where North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chose to launch his new “rural industrial revolution” is home to a major recent construction project failure, according to NK Pro analysis of state media, calling into question the new project’s likelihood of success.

High-resolution images and video footage published by state media last week show that a 2018 project to raze a large part of the town of Songchon to build new tobacco leaf-shaped apartment buildings was only partially finished and likely abandoned.

The images also show that the five-year-old buildings that were finished