Kim Jong Un condemns disastrous North Korean warship launch error
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 1:21 pm
During a high-profile ship launch ceremony, North Korea’s newest warship partially capsized, prompting Kim Jong Un to denounce the incident as a “criminal act.” The mishap has embarrassed the regime’s modernization drive and raised more than a few skeptical eyebrows.
Following the incident, the state's supreme leader called it an intolerable 'criminal act,' its state media, the Korean Central News Agency, said.
SEOUL – North Korea’s efforts to modernize its navy – and its military pride – have been damaged after its newest warship partially capsized during a launch ceremony, with leader Kim Jong Un calling the “catastrophic failure” a “criminal act,” state media reported Thursday. Kim – who was present at…
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