North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly inspected a navigational test of a new destroyer and ordered the ship to be delivered to the navy in the middle of next month.<\/p>\n
State-run Korean Central Television reported on Friday that Kim observed the maneuverability of the 5,000-ton class destroyer on Thursday off the country’s western coast. A photo shows Kim on board the ship, accompanied by his daughter.<\/p>\n
The report says Kim expressed satisfaction with the test, and that he “made an important conclusion” on the newly-planned weapons system for two additional destroyers that are due to be built.<\/p>\n
The new destroyer was launched last year, and carried out a series of test launches of strategic cruise- and anti-warship missiles from March through April. South Korean experts say the vessel could be equipped with missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n
Korean Central Television also said Kim visited a munitions factory on Wednesday to inspect the production of new self-propelled gun-howitzers. They are expected to be deployed along the military demarcation line with South Korea later this year.<\/p>\n
South Korean experts say the series of moves are intended to keep the United States and South Korea in check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly inspected a navigational test of a new destroyer and ordered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[519,914,890,917,141,31,154,916,920,921,922,919,34,142,918,923,915,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-8829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-north-korea","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-biz","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","12":"tag-kim-jong-un","13":"tag-korea","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nhk","16":"tag-nhk-world","17":"tag-nhk-world-premium","18":"tag-nhk-world-tv","19":"tag-nhkworld","20":"tag-north-korea","21":"tag-nuclear","22":"tag-public-broadcaster","23":"tag-radio-japan","24":"tag-tech","25":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}