North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a site for a new naval base, revealing plans to construct a navy port capable of operating “large, modern surface and underwater vessels”  to “accelerate war preparedness,” state media revealed on Sunday. 

Sunday’s Rodong Sinmun also revealed that Kim visited a navy shipbuilding facility, an arms factory and an artillery officers training school. 

While on site he ordered “the deployment of anti-aircraft and coastal defense weapon systems to ensure the defense of the military port” and reportedly stressed that new naval bases are necessary to dock new “state-of-the-art large vessels” which “cannot be