North Korea says it has successfully refloated a new destroyer that capsized upon launch last month, with state media reporting the damaged vessel will be moved to a dry dock in a different shipyard for repairs.
“After restoring the balance of the destroyer early in June, the team moored it at the pier by safely conducting its end launching on Thursday afternoon,” a report from the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
A satellite photo taken by Planet Labs on June 5 showed the formerly stricken vessel righted and seemingly floating in water away from the pier where the disastrous launch took place.
The ship floating is not the surprising part. It’s the fact seawater was into everything.
Dip your computer into the sea for a few weeks, it isn’t going to be happy about it.
In unrelated news, North Korea has exhausted its entire supply of ping pong balls.
Weren’t there jokes at the time about them inadvertently building a submarine?
Or they could have left it underwater and in a few hundred years have a ship museum about it.
The next generation of NK navy ships will have glass bottoms to investigate what happened to the last generation…
