{"id":71960,"date":"2025-05-25T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/24\/north-korea-detains-three-over-warship-launch-accident-state-media-reports"},"modified":"2025-05-25T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:46:51","slug":"north-korea-detains-three-over-warship-launch-accident-state-media-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71960","title":{"rendered":"North Korea detains three over warship launch accident, state media reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-Un vowed to punish those found responsible for \u2018criminal\u2019 damage to new 5,000-tonne naval destroyer<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has detained three people over an accident that occurred during the launch of a new warship this past week, state media reported early on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang has said that \u201ca serious accident occurred\u201d at Wednesday\u2019s launch ceremony in the eastern port city of Chongjin for a newly built 5,000-tonne naval destroyer, in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/23\/north-korea-ship-satellite-images-launch-accident-damage-failure-warship-destroyer\">sections of the bottom of the vessel were crushed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/24\/north-korea-detains-three-over-warship-launch-accident-state-media-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-Un vowed to punish those found responsible for \u2018criminal\u2019 damage to new 5,000-tonne naval destroyerNorth Korea has detained three people over an accident that occurred during the launch of a new warship this past week, state media reported ear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":815,"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-71960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/71960","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\/815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71961,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960\/revisions\/71961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}