The village features a number of brightly-painted multi-storey buildings and low-rise apartments with almost all structures apparently wired for and provided with electricity. The small town was orientated and positioned such that the bright-blue roofs and white side-walls of the various residential buildings built next to the massive pole flying the North Korean flag would be particularly-distinguishing features when viewed from the southern side across the border (the DMZ) between the two Koreas. Scrutiny with modern telescopic lenses, and clearer and sharper images taken with more modern cameras, however, has led to the conclusion amongst many that the village's buildings are simply empty shells of concrete and steel which lack not only window-glass but even interior rooms and floors as well, with lights in the buildings and structures turned on and off and empty pavements in the small town being swept by caretakers as part of possible efforts by the North Korean authorities to preserve the illusion of activity and life in the village.