{"id":59571,"date":"2025-05-26T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59571"},"modified":"2025-05-26T15:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:46:21","slug":"when-the-engineers-dont-quite-get-the-math-quite-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59571","title":{"rendered":"When The Engineers Don&#8217;t Quite Get The Math Quite Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/22\/world-news\/north-koreas-second-naval-destroyer-damaged-in-failed-launch-at-ceremony-attended-by-kim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> posted an article about North Korea&#8217;s launch of its new navy destroyer. It didn&#8217;t go well.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un was left red-faced and furious after a navy destroyer was badly damaged during a botched launch as he looked on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The hermit dictator slammed the incident as a national embarrassment and vowed to punish those responsible in a rare public admission of failure, according to state media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Kim suffered a humiliating blow when the newly built 5,000-ton destroyer became unbalanced during its christening at the port of Chongjin on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The malfunction caused the vessel to slide prematurely into the water, crushing parts of the hull and leaving the bow stuck on the shipway, Korean Central News Agency reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Seoul intelligence claim the Choe Hyon was likely built with Moscow\u2019s assistance following last year\u2019s strategic military partnership summit between Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While North Korea\u2019s naval forces are considered far inferior to South Korea\u2019s, its destroyer program is still viewed as a serious threat by the West, given Kim\u2019s nuclear arms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Hours after releasing the report of the damaged destroyer, North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles from an area near the northeastern town of Sondok, according to South Korea\u2019s military<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The hermit leader of North Korea is not someone to be taken lightly. His anger can easily be misplaced and misdirected in ways that could be a serious threat to world peace. I guess getting your shipbuilding plans from Russia might not be a great idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, The New York Post posted an article about North Korea&#8217;s launch of its new navy destroyer. It didn&#8217;t go well. The article reports: North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un was left red-faced and furious after a navy destroyer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59571\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1593,18081,8321],"class_list":["post-59571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-navy-destroyer","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59579,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59571\/revisions\/59579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}