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Time of India
a day ago
- Politics
- Time of India
North Korea launches repaired destroyer, Kim vows two more to come
North Korea successfully refloated a damaged naval destroyer, the Kang Kon, after a previous failed launch, with Kim Jong Un overseeing the event. Kim approved plans for two more destroyers, emphasizing the need to bolster naval power against perceived U.S. and allied threats. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Russian help? A North Korean naval destroyer damaged in a botched launch last month was successfully set afloat on a second attempt, with leader Kim Jong Un presiding, state media said Friday.A ceremony for the ship baptised the Kang Kon, after a top North Korean general killed in the 1950-53 war, was held on Thursday at the Rajin shipyard, up the coast from where the failed attempt occurred, according to Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency."Just over two weeks since the accident, the ship was safely raised and floated, and today, as planned, complete restoration has been finished," Kim said, according to has also approved a plan to build two more destroyer-class vessels next year, the agency decision "heralds a significant and dramatic change in the status and defence activities of (our) Navy," Kim said, according to released by the agency showed Kim, wearing a large straw hat and beaming happily, accompanied by his daughter Ju Ae, considered by many experts to be his likely claimed that the "provocative intentions of the US and its allies" have recently become "more blatant, and the level of threats to our security has clearly gone far beyond the dangerous limit"."We must develop our naval power more comprehensively and rapidly so that the enemy cannot even think of carrying out aggressive actions in the waters around us," the North Korean leader successful launch comes after Pyongyang last month announced "a serious accident" when workers first tried to put the 5,000-ton destroyer into water in the northeastern port city of mishap crushed sections of the bottom of the newly built ship. Pyongyang later covered it with a tarpaulin, satellite images Korean intelligence believe North Korea 's so-called "side-launch attempt" of the ship failed, and the vessel was left listing in the called the incident a " criminal act caused by absolute carelessness" and state media subsequently reported the arrest of four officials in connection with the botched the country said soon afterwards that the extent of damage to the vessel was "not serious", and that it would take "two or three days" to drain it, and another 10 to restore the destroyer's South Korean military estimated that, based on its size and scale, the new warship was similarly equipped to the 5,000-ton destroyer-class vessel Choe Hyon, which North Korea unveiled in late unification ministry, which manages relations with Pyongyang, said no "external structural defects have been identified on the destroyer".But "continuous monitoring is required to determine whether it is functioning normally," the ministry said in a has said the Choe Hyon is equipped with the "most powerful weapons," and that it would "enter into operation early next year."Some analysts said the ship could be equipped with short-range tactical missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads -- although North Korea has not proven it has the ability to miniaturise its atomic military has said the Choe Hyon could have been developed with Russian help, possibly in exchange for Pyongyang deploying thousands of troops to help Moscow fight in Ukraine North Korea confirmed in April for the first time that it had deployed troops to Russia to support Moscow in the Ukraine Sung-pyo, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute for Military Affairs , said it is "almost certain" that the North's latest warships are a result of Russia's assistance."North Korea is one of the very few countries that have supported Russia's war in Ukraine. Since it has provided very tangible assistance - including weapons and even personnel -- Russia will find it difficult not to reciprocate," he told AFP."What Pyongyang currently seeks the most are hard currency and advanced military technology." South Korea 's new president, Lee Jae-myung, elected last week in a snap election, has promised a more dovish approach towards Pyongyang, compared with that of his hawkish impeached predecessor Yoon Suk Lee administration has halted loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts along the border, which Seoul began last year following a barrage of trash-filled balloons flown southward by Korea had resumed its own propaganda broadcasts, sending strange and eerie noises into the South, but it appears to have stopped.
Saudi Gazette
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Saudi Gazette
New satellite photos show damaged North Korean warship
SEOUL — Satellite images have for the first time shown the extent of a shipyard accident in North Korea that damaged a new warship in the presence of the secretive state's leader, Kim Jong Un. The image shows the warship lying on its side, covered by large blue tarpaulins. A portion of the vessel appears to be on land. An official investigation into the accident - which Kim described as a "criminal act" - has begun, state media reported on Friday. None of the reports mentioned any casualties or injuries as a result of Thursday's incident in the eastern port city of Chongjin. KCNA, North Korea's official news agency, downplayed the damage in a report on Friday, saying it was "not serious" and that, contrary to initial reports, there were no holes on the ship's bottom. "The hull starboard was scratched and a certain amount of seawater flowed into the stern section through the rescue channel," KCNA manager of the shipyard, Hong Kil Ho, has been summoned by law enforcers, it would take around 10 days to restore the destroyer's side, according to said on Thursday that the accident was caused by "absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism".He added that those who made "irresponsible errors" will be dealt with at a plenary meeting next not clear what punishment they might face, but the authoritarian state has a woeful human rights is uncommon for North Korea to publicly disclose local accidents - though it has done this a handful of times in the particular accident comes weeks after North Korea unveiled a similar 5,000-ton destroyer, the Choe had called that warship a "breakthrough" in modernizing North Korea's navy and said it would be deployed early next year. — BBC
