President Yun Seok-yeol attends the launching ceremony of the King Jeongjo [사진 제공: 연합뉴스]
North Korean propaganda media took issue with President Yun Seok-yeol’s mention of ‘shooting the Northern Limit Line’ in his congratulatory speech at the launching ceremony of the next-generation Aegis destroyer, the King Jeongjo, on the 28th of last month, criticizing “If we continue to provoke us, we can injure our noses.”
The echo of unification, an external propaganda medium, said, “President Yun Seok-yeol played with congratulations at the ship’s launch ceremony, saying that it was about strengthening combat power or building maritime security.”
The echo of reunification also came from a mundane mind that tried to hide even a little bit of the reality of military inferiority compared to our republic, as a war minion of the United States, and as a bullet-bearer. One goosebumps,” he criticized.
In addition, he added, “Even Presidents Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye talked about ‘professing the ocean naval forces’ and ‘preparing for a collision in the West Sea’, but the reality was the opposite.”
It is analyzed that the reason North Korean media reacted sensitively to the launch of the Navy’s first 8,200-ton next-generation Aegis destroyer, the King Jeongjo, is because they feared that this ship would pose a significant threat with its ballistic missile detection, tracking and interception system.