North Korea's Kim launches new 5000-tonne warship

Hyunsu Yim
Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has helped launch a new 5000-tonne warship. (AP PHOTO)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has helped launch a new 5000-tonne warship. (AP PHOTO) Credit: AAP

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a ceremony for the launch of a “new multipurpose destroyer,” state media KCNA reports.

The 5000-tonne destroyer is equipped with the “most powerful weapons” and was built “within 400-odd days perfectly with our own strength and technology,” Jo Chun Ryong, a secretary in the ruling Workers’ Party, was quoted as saying on Saturday.

Kim was present at the event held on Friday at Nampho dockyard, a military shipbuilding base also referred to as Nampo.

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The leader thanked the workers and technicians for building the new destroyer, which is “true to the party’s line of strengthening the naval forces,” KCNA said.

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