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In reply to the discussion: North Korea's new warship sinks at launch in front of Kim Jong-un [View all]Warpy
(113,468 posts)13. Apparently it baarely touched water
when it flopped over and sank like a rock.
Kim is demanding the ship be refloated and salvaged and refitted for full use by mid June. I wonder if Kim is going to lose face by refusing to point at the part f the ship sticking above the water and telling it to rise and having it done. Probably not.
One hopes someone introduces N. Korean engineers to things like ballast and center of gravity.
One wonders if they were so concerned with all the scary stuff up on deck that they neglected to install the engines and fuel tanks, thinking those could be retrofit later when the ship was scaring people as it sat in port.
Whatever the cause, it takes major talent to pull something like this off.
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I'd pay to see his face. Heck, his face would become a viral meme worth good money.
Silent Type
May 21
#7
The source is the Daily Record. MSN.com is merely hosting the article amongst hundreds from a wide variety of news
progree
May 22
#24
nbc: In a rare public admission of failure, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un described the accident involving the
riversedge
May 22
#25
An interesting tidbit from your source (NBC), "likely side-launched ... a method not previously observed in N.K."
progree
May 22
#28