North Korean state media has in recent months promoted the country’s most important national construction projects as the large beach resort in Wonsan, the renewal of Samjiyon County – both widely covered in international media – as well as another, lesser-known project in Yangdok County.

NK Pro can reveal for the first time the progress on the ground at the new Yangdok Hot Springs Tourist Area via satellite imagery, exposing that the project, while smaller than some of the others in size, rivals the other major construction projects currently ongoing in the country in scope and political importance