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Noord -Korea has arrested a fourth official about the failed launch of a new warship That is the leader of the country, Kim Jong Un, furious.
Ri Hyong-Son, deputy director of the ammunition department of the ruling employee party, was “largely responsible for the serious accident last week,” said KCNA press agency on Monday.
Had the 5000 tons destroyer tipped and damaged his hullIn what Kim had described as a “criminal act” that “the (country) dignity and pride seriously damaged”.
The ship will be repaired under the supervision of an expert group, said Kcna.
Mr. Ri, who is part of the party’s central military committee, has been arrested the official at the highest level about the incident so far.
The committee orders the Korean folk army and is responsible for the development and implementation of the military policy of Noord -Korea.
Pyongyang also at the weekend Three civil servants held On the Noord -Chongjin -Scheepswerf, where the torpedo hunter was built and where the launch failed.
These include the chief engineer of Shipyard, the construction head and an administrative manager.
Kim said earlier that Wednesday’s incident was caused by “absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empirism.”
It is not clear which punishment they can be confronted with, but the authoritarian state has a sad human rights record.
It is unusual for Noord -Korea to make local accidents public, although it has done this a handful of times in the past after failed satellite launches.
Some analysts believe that Kim’s fast and serious reaction was intended as a signal that Pyongyang will continue to promote his military capacities.
“This sends a clear message to South Korea and the US that Noord -Korea will not stop when trying and strengthening naval technology,” Edward Howell, an expert in North Korea at Oxford University, told ABC News.
A commentary on the daily NK-based daily NK, a news output with aimed at North Korea, suggests that Kim’s “transparency, no matter how restrained” how reluctant is that he regards naval modernization as such a critical priority, and that “even public failures could not be the more broad story”.
Last week’s shipyard accident comes weeks after Noord -Korea has unveiled a similar warship in another part of the country.
Kim had called that warship a “breakthrough” when modernizing the navy of Noord -Korea and said that it would be used early next year.
