The construction of apartments in Ryomyong Street, a new luxury boulevard in Pyongyang, is now 94 percent complete, North Korean ruling party organ Rodong Sinmun said on Monday.

Exclusive in-country images from late November showed that the exteriors of some apartments were almost completed, but the status of this month’s work remains unclear as the North is yet to provide any official images.

“By January 13, more than 90 percent of the total number of the households in Ryomyong Street construction site was finished,” Rodong Sinmunsaid, later giving the exact figure as 94 percent. “Reaching 78 percent of the