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DPRK refloats 5000 ton destroyer warship which had capsized on launch two weeks ago (hexbear.net)

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Damaged Destroyer Moored at Pier after Perfect Restoration of Its Balance

Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- The field restoration promotion team informed the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea of its work to restore the damaged destroyer on June 5.

After restoring the balance of the destroyer early in June, the team moored it at the pier by safely conducting its end launching on Thursday afternoon.

The team will start the next-stage restoration after the reexamination of a group of experts into the overall hull of the destroyer.

The next-stage elaborate restoration is to be carried out at the dry dock of the Rajin Dockyard for the period of 7-10 days.

Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, who is guiding the work of the field restoration promotion team, said that the perfect restoration of the destroyer will be completed without fail before the convening of the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.06.06.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/d9df302ad52a23cb88cd06e85146f393.kcmsf

https://archive.is/MmcPQ (kcna)

Satellite image is from CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/asia/north-korea-refloats-destroyer-capsized-during-launch-intl-hnk-ml

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[–] dead@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Juche Necromancy is real.

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This satellite image shows the ship capsized about 2 weeks ago

This satellite image shows suspected balloons lifting the ship. CNN is speculating that it is balloons. DPRK hasn't said.

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

There’s no way that few balloons could do anything meaningful. I’ve designed a moored balloon system for a lighting truss and we could barely get it to work. A balloon that could lift that destroyer would cover the bounds of this photo.