Aw, come on NY Post. Kim’s new destroyer is a warship, not a battleship. Didn’t anyone at the Post play this game as a child?
Posted on 06/14/2025 7:06:57 PM PDT by Libloather
North Korea has successfully repaired and relaunched its new 5,000-ton naval destroyer less than a month after the boat embarrassingly capsized, according to state media reports.
The Korean Central News Agency said the destroyer — the second one Pyongyang has built this year — was back in the water on Thursday.
The reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was reportedly at the launch, held along the country’s east coast.
Kim said the new battleship stood as “convincing proof of the rapid transformation of our Navy. … No one will doubt, I think, the rapid transformation of our Navy as they have witnessed the launching of another new-type destroyer less than two months after a similar event at the Nampho Shipyard.”
Kim repeated prior claims he would bolster North Korea’s navy in response to perceived threats posed by the US and its Asian allies.
“The super-radical growth of our Navy’s operations capability is now being proved by powerful entities, not by a prediction or possibility, and this has already become an unstoppable, powerful current of history,” said Kim.
The ruler of the hermit kingdom previously attributed last month’s botched launch to criminal negligence. Four officials were later detained, including the vice director of the Workers’ Party’s munitions industry department.
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That’s a destroyer? Hell, Cousin Earl’s bass boat displaces more water than that. With him in it.
..... So .... they glued it back together .... and were probably surprised it actually floats LOL
Have they been fired yet... with a cannon?
Too bad about all the electronics that got soak in saltwater.
It’s their version of an EV that’s been flood damaged by salt water.
You are correct. In effect they have a hull and engines and guns. All the electronics are now worthless, including the electronics for the engines and guns.
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How will it do in 20’ waves?
Maybe Little Rocket Man had some of this stuff:
FlexSeal Cajun Navy Edition
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-JhjYdMz24
Too bad for the people he murdered for embarrassing him...
Aw, come on NY Post. Kim’s new destroyer is a warship, not a battleship. Didn’t anyone at the Post play this game as a child?
I wonder how many people were executed after the first launching debacle.
There is absolutley no way that North Korea righted that ship and got it floating and ready for “relaunch” in just a couple of weeks. I suspect its sister ship has been repainted in its place.
Color me skeptical. Very skeptical.
From the pictures they showed from just before the launching there were no electronics installed to speak of on the bridge. There is no way that hot mess was as complete as little rocket man was making out. And now it probably has a bent keel.
Soon to become “North Korea destroys relauncher after *another* embarrassing incident”.
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