SEOUL: North Korean officials and shipyard workers pledged to complete construction of a new navy destroyer warship by Oct 10 next year, state news agency KCNA reported today.
Video footage from North Korea’s state-run television KRT accompanying the news showed shipbuilding workers standing to attention listening to speeches at the Nampho shipyard, as well as several cranes and people nearby working with safety helmets and uniforms.
In June, North Korea restored a 5,000-tonne destroyer that was damaged during an earlier failed launch attempt, with leader Kim Jong Un pledging a more modern naval fleet to enhance the country’s maritime power in the Pacific Ocean against what he said were provocations by the US and its allies, according to KCNA.