DPRK announces work on its third destroyer as part of naval upgrade
Laying strong emphasis on boosting North Korea's military capabilities, the General Secretary of the WPK has been focusing strengthening the country's naval capabilities, overseeing the April launch of the Choe Hyon, North Korea's first 5,000-ton destroyer.
A second destroyer, the Kang Kon, suffered a failed launch in May but was repaired and set afloat in June.
The North will now construct the "Choe Hyon-class Destroyer No. 3" which it described as "a powerful warship of our own type".
The Nampho dockyard manager urged workers to meet the construction deadline to uphold the party's "plan for building a powerful army" and "to firmly defend the inviolable maritime sovereignty and national interests," KCNA said.
Kim reportedly 'visited the Nampho Shipyard 10 times in a little more than a year and gave precious instructions on the building of the warship and inexhaustible wisdom and strength for working miracles,' according to a NK News report.
The report included several more references to factory manager Yun Chi Gol and workers worshipping Kim for his 'miracle' work — they are only capable of building ships 'when they do as instructed by Kim Jong Un' — and pledging loyalty to him.
DPRK state media KCNA also showed photos of workers arranging and working on presumed metal ship components on an outdoor grid lattice staging area adjacent to a large indoor construction hall where the first Choe Hyon-class destroyer was built.
During the June launch of the second destroyer, Kim reiterated the DPRK's intent on modernising its navy, and said that it 'will continue to build two destroyers every year of the same or higher class and commission them into the Navy.'
He also said the new warships will sail to 'major ports and waters of enemy nations,' even 'across the Pacific,' so the U.S. and South Korea can 'experience how irritating and unpleasant it is to sit and watch enemy nation vessels roam the periphery of sovereign waters.'
The Choe Hyon-class destroyers are 'equipped not only with anti-air, anti-ship, anti-submarine and anti-ballistic missile capabilities but also with weapon systems for the most effective ground striking operations, like hypersonic strategic cruise missile, tactical ballistic missile' and others, according to Kim.
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