North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday toured Pyongyang’s May Day Stadium – the highest capacity venue in the world – and instructed that it be refurbished, state media reported on Wednesday.

The report follows news that Kim Jong Un has recently ordered the development and refurbishment of a series of other leisure and sporting projects in recent weeks, despite the United Nations this August appealing for US$98 million from the international community to help North Koreans in need.

“Defectors are invariably negative about their former homeland spending absurd sums on vanity projects. They remember the 90s all too well,