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North Korea Unveils New ‘Kim Jong Un style’ 5,000-tonne Warship
gCaptain ^ | April 26, 2025 | By Hyunsu Yim

Posted on 04/26/2025 9:53:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a ceremony for the launch of a “new multipurpose destroyer,” state media KCNA reported on Saturday.

The 5,000-tonne warship was equipped with the “most powerful weapons” and built “within 400-odd days perfectly with our own strength and technology,” the report said, quoting Jo Chun Ryong, a secretary in the ruling Workers’ Party.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: divingtourism; makeanicereef; northkorea; pyongyang; sittingduck; tds

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We found that German battleship been makin' such a fuss We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us We hit the deck a-runnin' and we spun those guns around Yeah, we found the mighty Bismarck and prepared to cut her down We found that German battleship been makin' such a fuss We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us We hit the deck a-runnin' and we spun those guns around We found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down
1 posted on 04/26/2025 9:53:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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2 posted on 04/26/2025 9:58:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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“built “within 400-odd days perfectly with our own strength and technology,” the report said”

Perfect? Really?


3 posted on 04/26/2025 9:59:52 AM PDT by plain talk
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That thing is, to actual warships, what a golf cart is to an actual SUV.


4 posted on 04/26/2025 10:00:31 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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I want to float on a thing made by North Koreans. hahahaha !!! No, not really.


5 posted on 04/26/2025 10:01:03 AM PDT by Strict9
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The Yamato was 73,000 tons.


6 posted on 04/26/2025 10:01:46 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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Are there any helicopters actually small enough to land on that thing?


7 posted on 04/26/2025 10:02:39 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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North Korea's Kim attends ceremony for launching new 5,000-tonne warship

She ought to make a fine artificial reef.

8 posted on 04/26/2025 10:02:49 AM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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Drop a Daisy Cutter with a shortened Fuse Rod on it and get the whole carnage with super slow motion 4K video...


9 posted on 04/26/2025 10:04:20 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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Was just going to point that out.

This little shit is no bigger than a large row boat!

Maybe it is a row boat.


10 posted on 04/26/2025 10:08:46 AM PDT by crz
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Imagine hitting that thing with one of our most advanced torpedoes.
Wouldnt even be any remains floating around after.


11 posted on 04/26/2025 10:11:23 AM PDT by crz
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12 posted on 04/26/2025 10:12:14 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: BenLurkin

Fantastic!


13 posted on 04/26/2025 10:13:46 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: chief lee runamok

Toy Boat, Toy Boat, Toy Boat, Toy Boat, Toy Boat, Toy Boat, ...................


14 posted on 04/26/2025 10:15:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ComputerGuy

Not without removing some of that superstructure.................


15 posted on 04/26/2025 10:16:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Are there any helicopters actually small enough to land on that thing?

Yep. By way of contrast, our Freedom Class LCS is about 4000 short tons, and has a compliment of a MH-60S and a Fire Scout

16 posted on 04/26/2025 10:27:01 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell.)
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They are decommissioning a lot of the lcs class.

Absolute failure in many respects.


17 posted on 04/26/2025 10:38:23 AM PDT by crz
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앉아있는 오리


18 posted on 04/26/2025 11:03:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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It will make a nice artificial reef somewhere.


19 posted on 04/26/2025 11:19:48 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: plain talk

“Perfect?” — that’s typical communist claptrap and braggadocio.


20 posted on 04/26/2025 11:21:25 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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