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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.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

When they said it was going to be refloated and serviceable in a month. It's basically scrap at this point. WWII ships you could salvage, modern stuff is kilometres of cabling connected to computers. Fix the hull and replace everything inside. Unless this isn't as advanced as it's made out to be.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It's North Korea. It's absolutely not nearly as advanced as they claim it to be.

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