North Korea botched launch of North Korean Destroyer.

That help is very much a 2 way street. Russia are getting shells & ballistic missiles (reports of v.high failure rate on both) and troops (reportedly 15k so far).

In return, N.K has gained access to Russian tech which despite its limitations is far in excess of where they were. Guidance systems, Radars and other tech perhaps even some technical info on nuclear warhead optimisation to allow N.K shrink their warheads to a size that allow them mounted in smaller SRBM missiles, or to be mounted in MIRV form on their ICBM.

Kim seems to have decided to trade his ammo stockpiles for short cuts in weapons development. The problem with being given that tech rather than developing it? Is that you leave your own development process foundering.

Racing to build top heavy frigates (the info via op-int on the 1st points to a lot, an awful lot of top weight). The N.Ks seem to be repeating the Japanese ship building mistakes that were borne out of the Washington Treaty.

Won't someone think of poor Kim.

They'll be lucky to survive poor sods.

You are all wrong. Obviously Kim promoted this magnificent ship to Submarine.

I love how everyone here is taking the piss out of North Korea....

Can you imagine the shìtbox we would put together ...itd probably cost trillions aswell...

Fùck me - look at the childrens hospital..

In NK there's a chance they won't be shot with any old gun but with an anti aircraft gun like he has done in the past.

Are we sure they built it ? Pretty sure I seen a ship like that on TEMU

Bit of a silly comment to be fair. There isn't an embargo on world news because the Gaza conflict is ongoing.

Bollíx. The most famous ship ever, was built on this island.

Actually, yeah you are right, that didn't end well.

True...

This is genuinely puzzling and hard to understand why those so …..“interested"….. in the DPRK haven’t updated this with the news that-
The Kang Kon destroyer (damaged in Chongjin Shipyard on 21 May) has been promptly repaired and re-launched at Rajin dockyard on 12th June.

Real mystery there❗️❗️

Just read a bit of the NYT article in the OP, which is just another typical turd in an endless avalanche of cartoonish, fraudulent red scare 1.0, CIA anti-communist h*rseh1t – no wonder the people who read capitalist-sociopath owned media are so misinformed about their own political interests and adopt their overlords interests as if it is their own.

Will they use the AA gun again?

I take it that you’re hinting at the typical made up out of thin air- anti-communist propaganda that KJU will/might/did have the engineers in question executed for the launch error.

This is a perfect example why logical, rational, adult discussion in this media & education ecosystem about the DPRK is impossible when any party treats such stupid & blatant (class) war-propaganda as having even a single atom of value or merit, or as a starting point part in such a discussion.

Its just too far from objective reality to be engagable with.

The only information about the DPRK available to people (i.e. information requiring no actual interest or effort) is this quality of war-propaganda so its not surprising that lots of people uncritically accept it & believe it when they don’t even know it is war propaganda in the first place.

the story was the messed up launch making kim look stupider to the world.

So you agree with capitalist sociopaths who think industrial accidents are something to laugh at and think it makes the leader of the country where the industrial accident takes place look stupid to the world. What a strange attitude.

Still proudly laughing at an industrial accident I see.

Here’s a quick Quiz, No web searching.
Do you know the name of the 3 political parties that make up the majority of seats in the DPRK parliament?
Can you name the current & previous premiers of the DPRK (equivalent of a president role)?
What is Kim Jong Un’s role and is it ceremonial (in a family legacy recognition sense) or not?
Do you know that the premier & KJU have bitter public spats about policy differences and that KJU has no power to over-ride the decisions of the State Affairs commission.

Then explain how its a monarchy.

I have no doubt that at some stage in the future North Korea will launch a nuclear weapon but I wouldn't be too concerned as it will probably fall straight down from the sky and land back in North Korea!