North Korea has re-launched a warship that was damaged in May upon its attempted first launch, state media KCNA reported on Friday.
After righting the 5,000-tonne destroyer earlier in June, it was launched on Thursday and is now moored at a pier, KCNA said.
Experts will examine the hull for the next stage of restorations, to be carried out at Rajin Dockyard for seven-10 days, KCNA said. The ship's full restoration is expected to be completed before a ruling party meeting this month.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who had witnessed the initial failed launch of the destroyer, had excoriated the accident as caused by "carelessness" that tarnished national dignity.
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 would be completed "without fail" before the convening of the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK.