Is North Korea Using a Disney “Up” Strategy to Recover Damaged Warship?
|That is what one analyst is claiming the North Koreans are trying to do:
![Decker Eveleth, a researcher at the Center for Naval Analyses, theorized that North Korea is attempting to lift up its 5,000-ton destroyer with methods inspired by Pixar's 2009 film "Up" in his account on X, along with a satellite image of the damaged warship. [SCREEN CAPTURE]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2025/05/27/a58ce8b8-47f4-434e-a540-be011e7a47dc.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
Decker Eveleth, a researcher at the Center for Naval Analyses, theorized that North Korea is attempting to lift up its 5,000-ton destroyer with methods inspired by Pixar’s 2009 film “Up” in his account on X, along with a satellite image of the damaged warship. [SCREEN CAPTURE]
In a scene that evokes Pixar’s 2009 animation film “Up,” North Korea seems to be using balloon-like devices to lift a 5,000-ton warship that capsized during its launch at Chongjin Shipyard, according to a military expert.
Decker Eveleth, a researcher at the Center for Naval Analyses, posted satellite imagery on his X account on Monday showing the damaged warship partially covered with a blue tarp and surrounded by several white objects.
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Well, Kim Jong un does resemble the young Kevin character.