{"id":71916,"date":"2025-05-22T13:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/22\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-warship-destroyer-accident"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:50:17","slug":"kim-jong-un-furious-as-north-korea-warship-partly-crushed-in-launch-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71916","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un furious as North Korea warship partly \u2018crushed\u2019 in launch gone wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea said the destroyer was lying sideways in the water after ceremony to launch the new 5,000-tonne ship<\/p>\n<p>A ceremony to welcome a new addition to North Korea\u2019s naval fleet has ended in embarrassment following a major accident during the ship\u2019s launch that the country\u2019s dictator, Kim Jong-un, described as a \u201ccriminal act\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kim was present when the 5,000-tonne destroyer appeared to go off balance during its launch in the eastern port city of Chongjin on Wednesday. The tipping caused damage to sections of the hull, the state-run KCNA news agency said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/22\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-warship-destroyer-accident\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea said the destroyer was lying sideways in the water after ceremony to launch the new 5,000-tonne shipA ceremony to welcome a new addition to North Korea\u2019s naval fleet has ended in embarrassment following a major accident during the ship\u2019s la&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71916\/revisions\/71917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}