Recently captured satellite images show that North Korea is working on what analysts consider to be their largest war ship ever. The country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, made the Navy a priority.
Photographs obtained by satellite from the Namor Shipyard Complex, on the western coast of North Korea, show what analysts say it is a huge frigate capable of launching guided missiles.
According to, the frigate appears to have about 140 meors in lengthwhat makes the clutch the largest war ship the North Korea has ever built.
In the images, captured on the 6th by Max’s Technologies, the American company of commercial satellite images, the new ship was visible and was positioned in the pier next to building equipment.
According to Joseph Bermudez Jr. and Jennifer Jun, analysts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), one think tank Headquartered in Washington, the frigate, which seems to have a set of tubes with missiles – which could be a vertical release platform of guided missiles.
This would be a New attribute for North Korean shipsgiving them the ability tois the anti-navy missiles, terrestrial attack or earth-air.
Next to the frigate, which is anchored in a floating dry dock and seems to be go through a “adaptation” processit is possible to identify two cranes, parts, equipment and supplies, say CSIS analysts on your blog.
The frigate is covered with a camouflage networkto limit air observation – a technique usually used by North Korea, which has long been sensitive to foreign recognition and surveillance.
The network prevents detailed measurements, but allows it to evaluate that the war ship is about 140 meters long, “which makes it the largest war ship made in North Korea,” CSIS analysts say.
With this length, the North Korean frigate is only 12 meters smaller than the new US Navy Constellation class, the first of which is being built.
In recent years, North Korea has sought to reinforce its Armed Forces and Modernize your Navyespecially their strength of submarines; In 2023, he presented his own.
According to analysts cited by the insider, North Korea is not exactly try to master the seas: The bet on this new class of war ships will be not so much projection of power (a country’s ability to exert strength beyond its territory) but a demonstration of power
