North Korea tries to HIDE its sunken warship
by covering it in tarpaulin after humiliated
Kim Jong Un is forced to watch it capsize
at bungled launch ceremony
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Elena Salvoni
&
Olivia Allhusen
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
5/26/2025 8:33:49 AM
The first pictures have emerged of a North Korean warship seemingly covered in tarpaulin after it capsized and sank in front of dictator Kim Jong Un.
Satellite images appear to show the naval destroyer languishing on its side alongside the dock where a launch ceremony had been held.
But the launch failed, and analysis of pictures taken on Thursday suggest the ship is now partially submerged and covered with bright blue tarpaulins in an apparent attempt to conceal the wreckage.
State media said the the 5,000-ton ship, which had been due to enter service next year, is designed to carry weapons systems including nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/26/2025 8:42:08 AM (No. 1955576)
Here's an article related to the one below, in re North Korean ship launch. Kim Jong-un does not tolerate failure. Don't you just know that he's gonna get some? In the past, he has had certain people who've met with his disapproval tied down before he had them shot with triple A (anti-aircraft artillery). Pretty effective, but slight overkill. He's bound to be creative in his execution methods, because his teen-aged daughter was there with him. That makes it worse. Little Rocket Man has the redass.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 5/26/2025 8:50:07 AM (No. 1955578)
Job openings will be posted tomorrow for nautical engineers.
The prior team has "disappeared". Don't forget to divide by pi.
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The Brirriant Reader is not happy!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/26/2025 8:52:55 AM (No. 1955583)
Covered in an acre of bright blue tarp so no one notices.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
konocti95 5/26/2025 8:54:41 AM (No. 1955585)
FTA: "...the ship is now partially submerged and covered with bright blue tarpaulins in an apparent attempt to conceal the wreckage."
Poor writing annoys me. "Apparent attempt?" No they covered it up with blue tarpaulins.
What annoys me even more is going to Walmart and not being able to get a blue tarpaulin to cover my 1993 Bayliner because the Norks got there first.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jalo1951 5/26/2025 9:05:54 AM (No. 1955588)
Oh, my. Funny, not funny. Yes, we think this is a hoot and it is. However, I am wondering how many people will be executed just to cheer up Kim Jong-un. Maybe they can turn it into a submarine.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mobyclik 5/26/2025 9:11:09 AM (No. 1955591)
Aren't you people being a bit too harsh on the only fat guy in N. Korea? He may have a brand new type of weapon here: A Destroyer/Submarine. I'm surprised he didn't say that.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/26/2025 9:19:54 AM (No. 1955595)
Such a shame that Kim Jong wasn't underneath it at the time.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Encore 5/26/2025 9:24:56 AM (No. 1955597)
So it seems…N. Korea is a little better at stealing technology than actually using it.
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Kim Fatty III ordered that ship from the Acme Trading Company, his go-to source for any explosive devices.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/26/2025 9:32:50 AM (No. 1955601)
Oops. Kimmie, new ship all broke now? But what's with the blue tarps, pal. We already know that you failed.
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It was a Temu class Destroyer.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
thefield 5/26/2025 9:44:23 AM (No. 1955607)
He had ordered the engineers tore-float the boar. Sure if that is going to happen. There is a reason why most nations and companies now use a slide launch instead of side launch, but I just can't remember what it is.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/26/2025 9:55:01 AM (No. 1955611)
Brings to mind the hangman scene in Blazing Saddles ....
Hedley Lamarr: "Boris, I've got a special. When can you work him in?"
Boris: "I couldn't pothibly thneak him in until Monday, thir. I'm booked tholid."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdL9wQdWZ9g (Boris)
Little Rocket Man is booked solid. Somebody's gonna get yelled at. Hardy har har.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 5/26/2025 10:25:17 AM (No. 1955625)
Hey, NORKS, May is the celebration of Cinco de Mayo . . . NOT Sinko de Mayo
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/26/2025 10:49:06 AM (No. 1955640)
Oops...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/26/2025 11:03:58 AM (No. 1955642)
FTA:
KCNA said: 'Due to immature command and operational negligence, the parallel movement of the bogies could not be guaranteed, resulting in the launching sled in the stern detaching first and causing the ship to capsize.
'The ship's balance was destroyed due to a rupture in the hull in some sections, and the bow section was unable to detach from the keel.'
As for the blue tarps, they hid nothing. Thus the conjectural "apparent attempt". Even tjey didn't do what they were apparently intended to do. Another fail...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kono 5/26/2025 11:51:24 AM (No. 1955659)
The capsize was bad enough. Another sacrifice might be necessary to mollify Kim for the mangled hull.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 5/26/2025 12:26:47 PM (No. 1955679)
Massive incompetence, on a scale that is seen from satellites. Can't hide that your whole damned country is a bunch of slaves, beaten into submission.
But you cannot beat or threaten competence and innovation into people.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/26/2025 2:08:36 PM (No. 1955733)
Kimmie's latest failure is the result of creating a nation of walking vegetables.
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'The urgent restoration of the destroyer...must be completed unconditionally before the June plenary session of the Central Committee of the Party', he added.
And whoever gets selected as that project manager might as well say goodbye to his loved ones, because that is simply not going to happen.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mifla 5/27/2025 3:42:28 AM (No. 1955914)
The price of having a good job in North Korea.
If you fail, you die, along with your family.
I think I would rather be a peasant.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 5/27/2025 11:57:40 AM (No. 1956123)
That's what you get for still keeping the USS Pueblo, Kim Jong Un
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