North Korea plans to build an additional 5,000 mountain destroyer for her Navy, KCNA state agency reported on Tuesday, July 22, after two similar war ships were released.
The workers of the Namcho shipyard (southwest of Pyongyang) were committed on Monday, during a demonstration, to complete the construction of the ship before October 10, 2026, according to Kcna.
This date marks the anniversary of the Foundation of the Workers Party, the North Korea party, created by Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong Uno’s grandfather.
The regime will now build the “destroyer No. 3 of Choe Hyon Class”, describes as a “powerful warship.”
The director of the Nampho shipyard urged workers to respect the construction period to support the “plan to create powerful armed forces” and “firmly defend inviolable maritime sovereignty and national interests.”
Spring in spring
North Korea had launched in mid -June, in the presence of its leader Kim Jong Un, a destroyer who had overthrown during a first attempt to launch in May.
A ceremony in honor of the ship called Kang Kon, which bears the name of a North Korean general killed during the Korean War (1950-1953), had taken place in the Rajin shipyard in Rason, in the northeast of the country, according to Kcna.
The first attempt to put the 5,000 -ton destroyer on May 21 in the port of Chongjin, ended in a “serious accident,” according to Pyongyang.
Part of the lower shell of the ship had been crushed in what Kim Jong one had described as “criminal act caused by absolute negligence”, judging that the accident sank “the dignity of the State.”
The state media reported the arrest of four people.
Source: BFM TV
