North Korea has elevated the recently-reconstructed and politically-symbolic Samjiyon county to the status of “city,” the country’s state media reported Wednesday.

The elevation of the area’s status by a decree from the DPRK’s Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly comes a week after leader Kim Jong Un visited the area for a grand opening ceremony of the newly-reconstructed “utopia” town, covered in extensive detail by state media at the time.

“It was decided to rename Samjiyon County Samjiyon City in the DPRK,” the decree, reportedly handed down yesterday and carried on the first page of party daily the Rodong Sinmunon