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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un underscored the importance of strengthening naval power as he toured a naval base construction site, state media KCNA reported on Sunday. "Now that ...
The annual report of North Korea's military capabilities by the U.S. Department of Defense, released in early 2014, identified the North Korean Navy's strength at 60,000 personnel, 70 submarines, 420 gun boats, 260 amphibious landing craft, 30 mine warfare vessels, and 30 support ships.
This is a List of active ships of the Korean People's Navy, the naval service of North Korea.Most of the list includes Ships of Korean Origin. Yet, it also contains types that are less frequently used, with their origins from past communist countries of the Soviet Union, and China.
The alliance between South Korea, the U.S. and Japan has expanded to a "nuclear military bloc" and South Korea has become an "anti-communist outpost" for the U.S., the KCNA report added.
Rason (Rajin): Major naval operations and training centre [1] Puam Dong: base for patrol boats and landing craft [1] Songjon-Pando: support base for patrol and missile boats; part of the larger Wonsan naval/maritime complex [1] Some ships are domestically built at the Wonsan and Nampho shipyards. Southern bases on both coasts are used to ...
North Korea convened a key party meeting to decide its diplomatic and defence strategy "to cope with the changed international situation", with leader Kim Jong Un attending, state media KCNA said ...
South Korea, Japan and the United States staged long-planned joint naval exercises involving an American aircraft carrier to ensure readiness against nuclear and missile threats from North Korea ...
On the morning of 25 June an armed North Korean steamer (ex US transport of 1000t, taken by South Korean communists to the North in October 1949) tried to disembark about 600 troops 18 miles off Pusan, but it was sighted and sunk by Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) patrol craft Bak Du San ("PC 701"). This was the first naval surface action of the war.