The original launch failure of the destroyer was an embarrassment for leader Kim Jong Un, who oversaw the incident.

North Korea has successfully refloated a new destroyer that capsized upon launch last month, with state media reporting the ...

North Korea’s plan to modernize its Navy had an embarrassing setback late last month, when a new warship capsized during its launch. To get the vessel floating again, engineers toiling under the do-or ...

A North Korean naval destroyer damaged in a botched launch last month is now upright and moored at a pier, state media said ...

North Korea appears to have returned to an upright position its stricken Choe Hyun Class destroyer that partially capsized ...

North Korea righted a capsized 5,000-ton warship and moored it at a pier in the Chongjin Shipyard state-run media reported, ...

Due to inexperienced command and operational carelessness in the course of the launch, the launch slide of the stern departed ...

North Korea has launched a warship that was damaged in May upon its attempted first launch, state media KCNA reported on Friday.

Pictures show balloons surrounding the vessel, which is draped in covers to hide what has turned out to be an embarrassing ...

North Korea has deployed dozens of huge white balloons alongside its wrecked 5,000-ton-class warship to stop it from sinking further after a botched launch last week, new satellite images show.

The stricken destroyer was the country’s newest warship and was meant to be a triumph of North Korea’s ambitious naval modernization effort. Instead, a malfunction in the launch mechanism on ...

This satellite image shows North Korea's new naval destroyer ... caused by absolute carelessness”. The warship pictured at the harbour ahead of its launch in Chongjin on May 20 (top) and the ...