North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inaugurated a pet project to build a seafood farm designed to serve as a “new model base” for the nation in Sinpho over the weekend, just up the road from the factory producing his top-priority nuclear missile submarines. 

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Monday that Kim oversaw a ceremony to open the Sinpho City Offshore Farm two days prior, a factory producing consumer products from “kelp, scallops, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and other things.”

He personally led the military-built project since it started in July, the report said, to create a