North Korea is building the largest warship in its history, which can pose a serious threat to security in the region.
Satellite photos show the ship moored in the shipyard in NAMPO, and experts emphasize a number of challenges related to its operation.
Kim Jong Un modernizes the armed forces, ignoring sanctions thanks to close contacts with Russia.
Satellite photos taken by Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs on April 6 show a ship moored on the water in the shipyard in Nampo, on the west coast of North Korea.
Analysts say that the unit is most likely rocket frigate (FFG) about 140 meters longdesigned for carrying bullets in vertical launchers, whose purpose can be objects both at sea and on land.
North Korea is building the largest warship in its history
In the analysis of Joseph Bermudez Jr. and Jennifer Jun from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington we read that FFG is The largest war ship produced in North Korea throughout the history of this country.
For comparison, Arleigh Burke rocket destroyers belonging to the American fleet are about 155 m long.
CNN emphasizes that the mere fact of the creation of a new, powerful North Korean war ship. It is not a surprise.
North Korea. Kim Jong Un is modernizing armed forces
Regime Winder You don't He is actively involved in the rapid modernization of his armed forces, developing a number of new types of weapons and testing intercontinental ballistic missiles that have a range that allows attacking goals located in the USA.
Pyongyang got his way, despite UN sanctionsalong with which he was imposed on raw restrictions on access to materials and technologies necessary to develop such a weapon.
Experts are of the opinion that North Korean contacts with Russia are helpful in ignoring sanctions, which tightened after the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022. Kim Duk, retired South Korean Admiral, believes that Moscow can provide technology for frigate missile systems.
Experts of the subject also claim that the ship can be equipped with a charmed antenna radar, which can track threats and goals faster and more accurately than before.
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The former US Navy captain Carl Schuster notes that modern war ships are Integration challenge in the field of communication, electronics, weapons and technology of electronic and acoustic sensors.
In turn, in a March interview for CNN, the South Korean politician Kim Byung-Ke, a member of the intelligence committee of the National Assembly, questioned whether Pyongyang has funds for the operation of such a large ship. At the same time, he appealed to Do not underestimate the potential threat.
– If North Korea equips a new frigate in HIGERwho, she claims, successfully tested in January, it will have it A breakthrough impact on regional security – he said.
According to Schuster, satellite photos show that before the Koreans from the north at least a year of work before the ship will be able to start at sea.