April 28, 2024
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North Korea offers sneak peek at new skyscraper streets set to open soon

State TV airs first photos of projects in capital and celebrates them as major successes despite being unfinished

North Korean television published the first images of two new skyscraper street projects and a large-scale greenhouse farm in Pyongyang this week, announcing new deadlines of February and April.

Korean Central Television aired photos on Jan. 1 of building exteriors that appear nearly complete at the youth-built Sopho street project, stage two of the Hwasong District 50,000-home project and the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm on the eastern outskirts of the capital.

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