North Korea Tries to Cover National Humiliation with Blue Tarps, Fails Miserably

What do you say about a nuclear power that cannot build a ship that floats? And, not only that, launches it while its tinpot Dear Leader watches on?

All I have to say is, I feel sorry for the people behind the 5,000-ton destroyer — no name given — that was launched Wednesday from the shipyard at Chongjin, North Korea, according to the South China Morning Post.

It’s bad enough that Korea Central News Agency — the happy-clappy propaganda mill of the North Korean government, which usually hides bad news from the public and screams how wonderful Pyongyang is doing with everything, and death to America, by the way — was forced to acknowledge an investigation into the incident on Friday.

According to Reuters, the incident happened as Kim Jong-un was watching; the ship apparently lost balance during the launch and seems to have hit the bottom, given that sections of the bottom of the ship were crushed.

While KCNA described the damage as “not serious,” it also called what happened “an unpardonable criminal act.”

South Korean media, meanwhile, said that the ship was lying on its side in the water in Chongjin as of Thursday, and images tend to

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