“The field restoration promotion team informed the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea of its work to restore the damaged destroyer on June 5. After restoring the balance of the destroyer early in June, the team moored it at the pier by safely conducting its end launching on Thursday afternoon. The team will start the next-stage restoration after the reexamination of a group of experts into the overall hull of the destroyer. The next-stage elaborate restoration is to be carried out at the dry dock of the Rajin Dockyard for the period of seven to ten days.”
“Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, who is guiding the work of the field restoration promotion team, said that the perfect restoration of the destroyer will be completed without fail before the convening of the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK,” says a North Korean state media story that could, in theory, be based on real events.