The hostile forces have formed an aggressive military bloc and been conducting military exercises of different code names around the Korean peninsula, straining the regional situation.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a maritime country which is sea-bound on the east and the west.

Its enemy states are all maritime countries; and their bridgeheads of overseas aggression, armed forces assembly points and logistics bases are found on the oceans and coasts.

As the maritime sovereignty of our state can be defended only by the great naval strength, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the DPRK, mapped out a plan to build warships with better operational capability as soon as possible and is energetically leading its implementation.

A launching ceremony of the new-generation multi-mission attack destroyer No. 1 was held in the DPRK on April 25, 2025.

The destroyer has been equipped not only with anti-air, anti-ship, anti-submarine and anti-ballistic missile capability but also with weapons systems capable of maximizing the ground-striking operation capacity such as supersonic strategic cruise missile and tactical ballistic missile.

This destroyer will thoroughly defend the maritime sovereignty and national interests in the territorial waters of the DPRK.

At the launching ceremony, Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un said: Our plan is to put the latest-type warships, capable of satisfying all the demands of national defence strategies, into commission at the earliest possible date with crucial importance given to the radical growth of the warship-building industry, and thus develop the Navy of our Republic into a superior modern service.

He also said that obtaining operational capabilities on the oceans is the most reliable means for controlling positively and safely the military threats pregnant with the use of nukes on the Korean peninsula and for containing and blocking the enemy's schemes to dispatch its additional overseas troops to the peninsula in case of emergency.

The destroyer launched that day was the warship with such capability.

Kim Jong Un said: There is and there must be no limit to the rapid growth of the national defence capability and to our ideals which we are desirous of and are striving to achieve. Our history of Navy building, which the world witnesses with a new eye, has set sail now and will make vigorous advance. In this advance, we will not rest even a minute.

The new-type destroyer-launching ceremony is a signal flare for strengthening the Navy of the DPRK.