Failed Launch&Damage of Second NK warship

HELLFIRE

https://beyondparallel.csis.org/failed-launch-and-damage-of-the-second-guided-missile-destroyer/

Satellite imagery confirms North Korean media reports that the second -class guided missile destroyer (DDGHM) was significantly damaged on May 21, 2025, during its launching ceremony at the Hambuk Shipyard in Chongjin’s O-hang harbor. … As noted in our previous report, it was unusual that the Hambuk Shipyard was selected to undertake the construction of the second DDGHM. …

….so this an “Ooops?” Or an “Aww S**T!!” moment? Or whatever the NKorean language equivalent is… Asking for a friend…

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broknsymetry

Dear Leader is not pleased.

px_eliezer_

broknsymetry Dear Leader is not pleased.

Probably SOMETHING like this.

AMDUSER

HELLFIRE “이런?” 또는 "aw S**T!!

Probably the later of the two. I’m sure Kim Jung Un was pleased… 🤬

Andyross

Sounds like some dogs will be well fed….

Andyross

Should have added a reference to that dog comment in case someone didn’t understand the full context (basically, it is probably not true.)
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-25597324

Astyanax

px_eliezer_ The pizza delivery version was even better. 😉

Fantastic movie though.

Astyanax

Kim’s reaction to the failed launch was swift and severe, as Rodong Sinmun states: 

“He seriously warned that the errors caused by the irresponsibility of the relevant officials of the Munitions Industry Department of the WPK Central Committee, the Mechanical Institute of the State Academy of Sciences, Kim Chaek University of Technology, the Central Ship Design Institute and other relevant units and the Chongjin Shipyard responsible for the accident that lowered the dignity and self-respect of our state in a moment would have to be dealt with at the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee to be convened next month, and censured them for the fault.”3

I think I’d start hashing out a plan to cut through the DMZ before that meeting if I were one of them.

px_eliezer_

Astyanax I think I’d start hashing out a plan to cut through the DMZ before that meeting if I were one of them.

I’m sure that they will already be in custody, if even still alive.

HooRU

This is what dictators will never learn, with fear comes lies, everyone is in CYA mode and no one takes chances that can propel good changes. Leaders here should heed this as a warning.

digitalfutur

HooRU Yep, you can make people do something, but you can’t make them do it well.

Somewhat-Reticent

digitalfutur you can make people do something, but

You have to choose between doing it well, and doing it cheap.

real_aurgathor

A very ‘mild’ response so far: “North Korea detains 3 shipyard officials over the failed launch of a naval destroyer”

North Korea authorities have detained three shipyard officials over the recent failed launch of a naval destroyer, an incident that leader Kim Jong Un said was caused by criminal negligence, state media said Sunday.

Hong Kil Ho, the shipyard manager, also was summoned for questioning, KCNA previously reported.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/north-korea/north-korea-detains-3-shipyard-officials-failed-launch-naval-destroyer-rcna208957

broknsymetry

real_aurgathor

“Detain” in North Korea has a somewhat different meaning.

HELLFIRE

For the visual type, this may help visualize what normally happens in a sidelaunch… and what likely happened in the North Korean’s case…

broknsymetry “Detain” in North Korea has a somewhat different meaning.

…like KGB “protective custody?”

/sarcasm

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RayGeode

Too bad he wasn’t on it at the time.

HooRU

My thought too. Too bad, and his sister too.

telcodad

px_eliezer_ Astyanax I think I’d start hashing out a plan to cut through the DMZ before that meeting if I were one of them.

I’m sure that they will already be in custody, if even still alive.

Well, experts do say the officials face severe, and possibly fatal, consequences:

The 4 North Korean officials arrested over a botched destroyer launch are in mortal danger
By Mia Jankowicz, Business Insider - May 29, 2025
https://www.businessinsider.com/north-koreans-held-botched-warship-launch-are-in-mortal-danger-2025-5

Four officials detained after a North Korean destroyer was badly damaged on the day of its ceremonial launch into the water face potentially fatal consequences at the hands of Kim Jong Un, North Korean experts told Business Insider.

“I would say there’s a very good chance they’d be executed,” Joseph S. Bermudez, an analyst in North Korean defense at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, said. …

HELLFIRE

https://www.twz.com/sea/doomed-north-korean-frigate-appears-upright-again-in-satellite-image – Partially Submerged North Korean Frigate Appears Upright Again In Satellite Image

… Recent imagery of the warship indicates that it has now returned to an upright position, although the target of restoring the frigate before the end of this month remains highly dubious. 38 North, a website devoted to the analysis of North Korea, today published satellite imagery from Airbus Defense and Space, of the scene at Chongjin Shipyard on June 2, as seen in the social media post below. …

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HELLFIRE

https://www.twz.com/news-features/north-koreas-frigate-that-partially-sunk-appears-in-dry-dock-with-damaged-superstructure – North Korea’s Frigate That Partially Sunk Appears In Dry Dock With Mangled Superstructure

The North Korean Choi-Hyun class frigate that rolled over on its side during a botched launch ceremony attended by Kim Jong Un back on May 21st is now in a dry dock, and new satellite images give us a better view of the extent of the topside damage. … They show the still unnamed frigate, the second in its class, in a dry dock facility in Rajin, which sits near the border with Russia in northeastern North Korea. The ship made the roughly 50-mile voyage under tow from its birthplace in Chongjin. …

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