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Biscuits

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Valiant 1002 said:
Navy, yes.

That's why I said "they will need to be built in large numbers" and "each ship will need a lot of escorts".

And if the Navy also had its own nuclear asset, that would further enhance the survivability of the nuclear deterrent. This complicates and costs preemptive efforts even more: previously, you could just focus your expertise on destroying missile bunkers and hunting down TELs. Now, you still have to destroy bunkers and TELs, but you also have to hunt down missile-carrying surface ships, missile-carrying submarines, and even missile-carrying aircrafts. They are all scattered, well-protected, and highly camouflaged/lethal.

A strong navy, equipped with new and better equipment, and with more budgets will also ensure the loyalty and dedication of naval leaders and officers, who have often been put behind other priorities throughout history.

To supplement my argument, let me quote The Diplomat:
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I don't think it will come in large numbers. Imho my guess is that it's more to start training a generation of sailors who are familiar with modern-ish destroyers and frigates.

The timeline for NK is moving ahead. The time of their partially self imposed and partially UN imposed isolation may end soon. And furthermore there may come a day sooner than most think where NK will be given at least nominal ownership of the whole peninsula. That means inheriting a much larger military role in the alliance framework than they ever have before. Including operating blue water ships.

They need sailors and pilots when that day comes.
 
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Biscuits said:
Imho my guess is that it's more to start training a generation of sailors who are familiar with modern-ish destroyers and frigates.

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They need sailors and pilots when that day comes.
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I'm pretty sure they're doing it already. A few months ago, South Korean intelligence said North Korea was starting to recruit university students and highly skilled personnel to send to Russia for training in aviation maintenance and operations.
 
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The shipyard and the ship itself have been observed to be under construction since May.

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Now it's near the New Year, and we see the hull of the ship is almost complete. I think that progress is very fast.

Give them another year or two to install the necessary equipment on the ship and voila! We would see 1 or 2 ships launched by at least 2026 — if North Korea's claims last year are true.
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in the article you attached they write "dividing walls and a roof with an apparent mesh net have been added", while from the photos of this new frigate the shipyard in addition to the walls has a real rigid roof,
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therefore one might think that they are two different places and if in fact in the one in Nampo indicated in the article a large warship is being built, it would lead one to think that soon there will be 2 modern frigates
 
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IISS published the above article at the end of October. It is now the end of December. Arguably much has changed in the construction hall in the past two months.
 
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Looking at the past history of other surface combatants, I'd guess she'd also be "launched" and docked somewhere for the fitting out process. That will provide satellite imagery data for a more complete view of the ship's design.

As for the sonar, given that the entire ship is not raised high enough to allow for a sonar unit to be installed on site, it will probably be installed when the ship is put into a dry dock.
 
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