DPRK top leader attends launching ceremony of new-generation destroyer
The Peninsula
Seoul:The Democratic People s Republic of Korea (DPRK) unveiled a new generation destroyer at the Nampho Dockyard on Friday, as its top leader lauded...
Seoul: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) unveiled a new-generation destroyer at the Nampho Dockyard on Friday, as its top leader lauded the launching of the advanced warship as a major step to modernization for the country's naval forces, state media said Saturday.
The new-type multipurpose destroyer, which has a displacement of 5,000 tons and is equipped with "the most powerful weapons," is the first in a new class called "Choe Hyon," named after a late military activist and veteran of the DPRK armed forces, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
At the launching ceremony, Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, praised the "Choe Hyon" destroyer as being able to execute multi-functional maritime combat missions, saying the destroyer has defense capabilities against aircraft, warships, submarines and ballistic missiles, and boasts weapon systems with maximized land strike capabilities like supersonic strategic cruise missiles and tactical ballistic missiles, according to the KCNA report.
Stressing the DPRK naval forces should have a reach to open seas, instead of being confined to territorial waters, as an imperative to safeguard the country's sovereignty and national interests, Kim called the launching of the new destroyer "the first real step" towards transformation and upgrading for the service and the first step towards building a strong navy, only to be followed by the second step, a development project of nuclear-powered submarines, the KCNA said.
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