user: input: Article: The resort will have ski runs, ski lifts, resort chalets and sleigh rides.
But its two hotels are little more than empty shells, while the access road is filled with potholes, the AP news agency reported after a visit to the site in September.
There are also questions about who will use the resort once it is completed.
It is estimated that there are only about 5,500 North Korean skiers in a country with a population of 24 million people - equivalent to about 0.02% of the total.
Correspondents say that the Masik Pass ski resort - located  in the secluded depths of North Korea's east coast - is the country's latest megaproject, the product of 10 months of intensive labour.
It is intended to show that Communist North Korea is as civilized and culturally advanced as any other country, despite its reputation for poverty and isolation.
Billboards around the construction site urge workers to finish the job by Thursday's deadline, the 68th anniversary of the formation of the Korean Workers' Party. But the construction has reportedly been delayed by heavy rains and landslides.
"Full attack. March forward. Let's absolutely finish building Masik Pass ski resort within this year by launching a full aggressive war," one sign reads.
The resort is believed to be a pet project of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who reportedly skied when he attended secondary school in Switzerland under an assumed name.
An AP reporter who recently visited Masik's ski runs says that they consist of long stretches of bright-brown dirt dotted with rocks, weeds and patches of stubborn grass. The pistes  cut their way through the trees to converge at the hotel construction site below.
Foundations were still being dug. Two simple lifts were being installed, but neither was working at the time.
Correspondents say that North Korea is eager to build the resort because it wants to win more medals in the Winter Olympics. Sport is seen as a useful way of mobilising the masses and Pyongyang wants to encourage more tourism.
"It will have a big impact on the economy," North Korean Academy of Social Science economist Ri Ki Song told AP.
"We are now trying to build a lot of tourism sites, and skiing is the kind of sport that developed countries enjoy. It will also be a place for our own people to use.''

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output: North Korea was due to open its first multi-million dollar ski resort on Thursday, but there are doubts whether it will be ready in time.

input: Article: John Cooper QC said stalking, threats to kill, sending obscene material and harassment were "age old" offences.
The fact that they were being committed on Twitter did not make any difference, he told the Lords communication committee.
It comes as ministers consider new laws to combat so-called "revenge porn".
Mr Cooper hit the headlines in 2010 when he represented a man put on trial for posting a joke bomb threat on Twitter.
His client, Paul Chambers, was found guilty in May 2010, but his conviction was quashed on appeal.
The QC told the committee he had been surprised at the poor understanding of the law among some Crown Prosecution Service lawyers, who had decided to press ahead with the case even though the police and others involved could see the offending tweet had been nothing more than a "crass joke".
He said social media was a "positive, inspiring arena" which was self-policing to a "high degree", but like society in general there were those who spoiled it for the rest.
But that did not mean new laws were needed to deal with it, he argued.
"The issue for me is not not so much the faulty nature of the existing law but the fact it's coming at us from all angles," he said, adding that it all needed to brought together in one "basket".
He also called for a campaign to educate the police and public on what constitutes "anti-social behaviour" on social media.
Police were being inundated with complaints from members of the public about comments posted on Twitter and other social media sites, which clearly were not in breach of the law, he told the peers.
On the subject of "revenge porn," where people upload sexually explicit content of ex-partners without their permission, he said it was already against the law to "send any form of obscene picture".
Gabrielle Guillemin, legal officer of international free speech campaign Article 19, also cautioned against "revenge porn" legislation.
She told peers: "We have seen a lot of legislation, for example in the United States, to address this particular issue, but you would question whether it is for the criminal law to get involved in what is very often, ultimately the fallout of failed relationships.
"And if civil remedies are not more appropriate to deal with these kinds of issues."
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said the government is "very open" to changing the law to deal with "revenge porn".
He told MPs uploading sexually explicit material to the internet without the subject's consent is becoming a bigger issue in the UK.

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output: No new laws are needed to deal with social media - just a better understanding of the existing ones, a leading barrister has told peers.

input: Article: The schoolgirl disappeared after a night out in the Republic of Ireland in 1994 and her body has never been found.
Convicted child killer Robert Howard, who died in prison last year, was the main suspect in her disappearance.
Attempts are to be made to resolve disclosure issues about documents held by the police.
Earlier, lawyers for the Arkinson family asked if there was an "institutional incapability" within the police service (PSNI) to find documents.
A barrister representing the PSNI described the criticism as "tiresome".
The coroner told the court that in anything of this age, nature and complexity there would always be matters which arise which caused pause for thought.
"Thats where we are....it is with a fair wind we will reconvene on the 18th April", he said.

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output:

assistant: The inquest into the disappearance of Castlederg schoolgirl Arlene Arkinson will not hear any evidence for the next two weeks.