North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has opened a city close to symbolic Mount Paektu and toured the site on horseback.
It comes with time running out on Pyongyang's demand for the US to offer it fresh concessions by the end of the year, and ahead of Kim's New Year speech on 1 January, a key political set-piece in the isolated country.
Banners proclaimed:"Long live the great leader of the force of our party and country, comrade Kim Jong Un!" The Korean people were, it said,"advancing along the straight road chosen by themselves without any vacillation despite the worst trials".
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