Think-tank: New N. Korea warships raise sanction doubts


SEOUL: Satellite images have picked out two new North Korean warships – the largest it has constructed in 25 years and an important “wake-up call” on the effectiveness of sanctions, a US think-tank said.

Recent commercial satellite pictures showed two new helicopter-carrying frigates separately berthed at shipyards in Nampo in the west and Najin in the far northeast.

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