North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unveiled a new 5,000-tonne naval destroyer reportedly equipped with nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. The dictator attended the ship's launch ceremony at the Port of Nampo on Friday alongside his daughter and favoured successor,

The launch, which took place on Friday at the military shipbuilding dockyard of Nampho, marked a new era of the "great Kim Jong Un-style fleet building", KCNA said, quoting Vice-Admiral Pak Kwang Sop. The ship was graded as the "Choe Hyon-class", named after anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter Choe Hyon, the report said.