North Korea fails the launch of the warship. Kim Jong-un of Kim: « A crime that damages national dignity »
The North Korean Lanciamissili destroyer underwent serious damage while he was launched by the quay on the Chongjin construction sites
Ended up in A disaster the launch of the last war ship of the North Korean navy: in the launching phase (the sliding at sea from the construction site of the construction site), a ramp that held the stern fed, The hull took a very strong blow, some sections of the keel have been crushed And the stability of the hull has been compromised.
It is not usual that Pyongyang admits and describes with many details the failure of a military company, but this time The order to announce the accident came from Kim Jong-un: The Marshal was present at the ceremony on Wednesday 21 May and vented the frustration by publicly accusing the soldiers and technicians of the Chongjin shipyards of having committed « a crime that damaged dignity and pride of the nation ».
Kim listed the faults of the subordinates: « Inexperience and ineptitude for command, operational negligence, irresponsibility, non -slip empiricism ». The report of the Kcna ends with the‘announcement that the accident will be judged during the plenum at the end of June of the Central Committee of the workers’ party and that before then the damage to the ship must be strictly repaired (the South Korean experts however doubt that it is possible in a few weeks).
This year Kim ordered to accelerate the development of the Navy: At the end of April, accompanied by the inseparable teenage daughter, he had gone to Nampo’s construction sites to attend the launch of a new 5,000 tonate destroyer with missionistic capacity. The launch of April 25 went well and propaganda stressed that the construction took only 400 days to prove the ability of the North Korean war industry. It is possible that the damaged unit on May 21 during the detachment from the dock belongs to the same class, the « Choe Yon »named after an old warmrant of Kim the Sung, founder of North Korea and Kim dynasty.
South Korean intelligence analysts argue that aThe works for the new class of expansion of the launciamissili attended the Russiansas part of the reward due from Moscow to Pyongyang for sending a contingent on the war front against Ukraine. To serve the race to modernization ordered by Kim, It is possible that the pelvis on the Chongjin construction sites was built quickly: to what is understood by the report of the Kcna And from satellite photos, the procedure provided that the launch in the sea took place next to it and not with bow slide. For this reason Kim spoke of « inexperience and ineptitude ».
It remains to be understood why the North Korean regime, obsessed with secrecyThis time he decided to reveal the accident. « Kim Jong-un has had an emotional reaction, He wanted to make the public error And this means how much it holds to the naval armament program, « he said to NK NEWS Professor Andrei Lankov. The expert observes that the ostentatious anger of the supreme leader « will make some of his best engineers lose to North Korea ».
