This is the site of a former golf resort in the Mount Kumgang Tourist Region of North Korea.

Just ten miles north of the inter-Korean border, a luxury golf resort developed by a well-known South Korean hotel brand is slowly decaying in the North Korean resort town of Mount Kumgang.

The Ananti Golf and Spa Resort cost a hefty $75 million and opened in May 2008, but was unlucky enough to be born in the twilight of inter-Korean cooperation’s so-called Sunshine era.

Less than six weeks after opening for business, the resort abruptly shut down in July 2008. A North Korean soldier had killed a South Korean tourist who was walking in a nearby prohibited area, resulting in a rapid withdrawal of all South Korean nationals in the region.

While the inter-Korean tourism industry has been dead ever since, the luxury golf resort continued to live on in a state of quasi-limbo: Signs of maintenance prevail and the courses remain clearly visible in 2020 satellite imagery. Unlike other facilities in Kumgang, the resort was also never repurposed — meaning it has gone unused for more than 12 years now.

Via NK News