{"id":71935,"date":"2025-05-23T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/23\/north-korea-ship-satellite-images-launch-accident-damage-failure-warship-destroyer"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:05:13","slug":"satellite-images-reveal-damage-to-north-korea-warship-after-criminal-launch-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71935","title":{"rendered":"Satellite images reveal damage to North Korea warship after \u2018criminal\u2019 launch accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue tarpaulins cover the partly \u2018crushed\u2019 5,000-ton destroyer as it lies on its side at the northeastern shipyard of Chongjin<\/p>\n<p>Satellite images have revealed the extent of a navy shipyard accident in North Korea that resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/22\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-warship-destroyer-accident\">serious damage to a warship<\/a> and infuriated the country\u2019s leader Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Kim watched as the 5,000-ton destroyer was partly \u201ccrushed\u201d during its launch at the north-eastern shipyard of Chongjin. Kim called the incident a \u201ccriminal act\u201d that could not be tolerated, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/23\/north-korea-ship-satellite-images-launch-accident-damage-failure-warship-destroyer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue tarpaulins cover the partly \u2018crushed\u2019 5,000-ton destroyer as it lies on its side at the northeastern shipyard of ChongjinSatellite images have revealed the extent of a navy shipyard accident in North Korea that resulted in serious damage to a wars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71935","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71935\/revisions\/71936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}