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North Korea Makes Arrests Over Failed Ship Launch That Angered Kim Jong-un

Three shipyard officials were arrested, including the chief engineer, state media said. The North Korean leader was watching as the launch of a navy destroyer went wrong.

North Korea has arrested three shipyard officials as it investigates the failed launch of a navy destroyer last week that badly embarrassed its leader, Kim Jong-un, state media reported on Sunday.

The chief engineer at the Chongjin shipyard on North Korea’s northeastern coast was arrested, as were the head of its hull-construction workshop and a deputy manager for administrative affairs, ​the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

Mr. Kim called the launch’s failure a “criminal act” and promised stern punishment, state media reported last week.
“the fact that the accident is an unpardonable criminal act remains unchanged, and those responsible for it can never evade their responsibility for the crime,” Mr. Kim’s Central Military Commission said. It said it was taking the accident seriously “to deal a telling blow” to lax attitudes “prevailing in any field.”