A 5,000-ton North Korean destroyer suffered a “serious accident” during a launch ceremony, state media reported Thursday, with leader Kim Jong Un calling it a “criminal act” and warning of consequences.
The accident took place Wednesday at the Chongjin Shipyard on the country’s east coast, the official Korean Central News Agency said.
Due to “inexperienced command and operational carelessness,” a malfunction in the launch mechanism caused the ship’s stern to prematurely slide into the water, the KCNA report said.
Some sections of the hull were crushed, upsetting the balance of the warship and preventing the bow from leaving the shipway, the report added. More
Satellite image of the disaster Here
Kim Jong Un: Bulldoza-man! Dig mass glaves!
Sounds like the norks might have had a little help on the christening from something similar to a certain 3 letter agency of ours.
What was the damage?? All I can see is someone went crazy with the blue paint.
The vessel is on its side half in the water. The part in the water is most likely flooded, wrecking all electronics and if the article with the satellite image is too be believed destroying the engines as well. – Dr. Tar
@Andys dad — In the article text it says that the damaged ship is covered with blue tarp, and goes on to give ‘best guess’ estimates of damage.
democRAT Blue… there’s the problem! It can fuk up anything!
I hope the President sends Kim a text message with the Nelson Muntz laugh.
“Get the stadium ready. Get the ack-ack guns ready. We’re doing a round of ‘resignations’.”.
“Yes fearless leader!”
Yikes..i wouldn’t want to be the dude in charge of that fuck up. Whoever it is is going to face a unpleasant execution..medieval style
Kim Jong Un: Stop feeding the wolves until I say so!
It’s not nice to mess with the little Nork dictator. So sorry Chollie but you gotta go.
@ Dr Tar
Thank you!!
I feel so bad for the people living under NK monsters.
It’s still not as bad as leaving billions of stuff to the Taliban
That satellite imagery is nothing compared to the Gambit-3 satellite imagery I used in 1976.
Sum ting wong
Short Round gonna be mad as a motherfucker! Made him look the fool that he is.