North Korea launched a warship two weeks after damaged during an attempt to launch previousIn an incident that has aroused severe criticism from the country leader Kim Jong Un.
The 5,000 -ton destroyer, which was restored to balance earlier this week, was launched on Thursday and is now moored in a pier, said the state managed by the state, KCNA.
The ship should be fully restored before a ruling party meeting this month, added KCNA.
Kim, who witnessed the warship to tip in the first attempted launch, criticized the incident as a “criminal act” which “seriously damaged the dignity and pride of the country)”.
It was the result of “absolute negligence, irresponsibility and non-scientific empiricism,” he said.
At least four officials Including Ri Hyong-Son, The deputy director of the ammunition department of the ruling workers’ party, was arrested for the incident.
Mr. RI is part of the Central Military Party Commission, which commands the Korean People’s Army and is responsible for the development and implementation of military policies in North Korea.
We do not know what sanction the civil servants could be in progress, but the authoritarian state is known to condemn the civil servants which it deems guilty of reprehensible acts Forced and even dead work.
The effort to straighten the ship was a manual process, according to researchers from 38 North, a website managed by the US-Korea Institute of Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
Satellite imaging shows the workers on the Quay pulling lips and using dam balloons to bring the ship back to balance, they said, adding that some of the balloons still seemed attached to the ship.
Some analysts have seen KIM’s rapid and serious response to the previous faulty launch as a signal that Pyongyang continues to advance its military capacities.
The regime is “deeply invested in the image of an increasing military power” and failure can harden their determination to advance this, explains Jihoon Yu, researcher at the Institute of Korea in Defense.
Kim’s “unusually severe” response to failure aims to protect the leader’s image and reaffirm his authority, he adds.
Michael Madden, an expert in North Korea of the Washington Stimson Center, considers Kim’s response as a sign of “high priority” that his regime consists in developing warships.
A few weeks before the sloppy launch, Pyongyang had unveiled a similar warship in another part of the country.
Kim called this warship a “breakthrough” in the modernization of the North Korea Navy and said that it would be deployed at the start of next year.
