{"id":214,"date":"2025-06-06T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=214"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:36:58","slug":"north-korea-refloats-warship-after-failed-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"North Korea refloats warship after failed launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Korea has reportedly refloated a warship after it\u00a0capsized during a launch attempt, in an incident that drew harsh criticism from the country&#8217;s leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State-run news agency KCNA reported on Friday that the warship had &#8220;safely entered the water vertically&#8221; and had then been &#8220;moored at the pier&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Craig David &amp; Tiwa Savage - Commitment\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3vxPZnhcgfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is expected to be fully repaired before a key meeting led by Kim which top officials in the one-party state will attend, KCNA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 5,000-tonne destroyer can be seen upright at the pier and then about three hours later,&#8221;floating in the harbour&#8221; in satellite images published by specialist news sites 38 North and NK News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The effort to right the ship, which had happened on Thursday, was a manual process, researchers at 38 North said, noting that satellite imaging showed workers on the quay pulling tethers and using barrage balloons to bring the vessel back to balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the balloons appeared to still be attached to the vessel, they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim, who witnessed the warship tipping over during the failed launch about two weeks ago, had criticised the incident as a &#8220;criminal act&#8221; that &#8220;severely damaged the [country&#8217;s] dignity and pride&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the result of &#8220;absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least four officials,\u00a0including Ri Hyong-son<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwy3rr307qyo\">,<\/a>\u00a0the deputy director of the ruling Workers&#8217; Party&#8217;s Munitions Industry Department, have been arrested over the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ri is part of the party&#8217;s Central Military Commission, which commands the Korean People&#8217;s Army and is responsible for developing and implementing North Korea&#8217;s military policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not clear what punishment the officials might face, but the secretive dictatorship has been known to sentence officials it finds guilty of wrongdoing to\u00a0forced labour or even death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some analysts saw Kim&#8217;s swift and severe response to the earlier failed launch as a signal that Pyongyang would continue to advance its military capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regime is &#8220;deeply invested in the image of a rising military power&#8221; and the failure may harden their resolve to push that forward, according to Jihoon Yu, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim&#8217;s &#8220;unusually severe&#8221; response to the failure is aimed at protecting the leader&#8217;s image and reasserting his authority, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Madden, a North Korea expert from the Stimson Center in Washington, saw Kim&#8217;s response as a sign of the &#8220;high priority&#8221; his regime is putting into developing warships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just weeks before the botched launch, Pyongyang had unveiled a similar warship in another part of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim called that warship a &#8220;breakthrough&#8221; in modernising North Korea&#8217;s navy and said it would be deployed early next year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c79e4pr2qjro\">(BBC)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has reportedly refloated a warship after it\u00a0capsized during a launch attempt, in an incident that drew harsh criticism from the country&#8217;s leader Kim Jong Un. 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