North Korea Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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How the North Korea's coastal naval forces could evolve:
- Moving towards a more offensive, swarming force – which can be achieved through mass deployment of UUVs and USVs.
- Turn it into a more escort force – focusing on protecting major surface combatants, strategic missile submarines and other important naval assets.
- Turn it into a nuclear deterrent force like other branches, by focusing on 600-1,500 ton corvettes and frigates capable of launching nuclear-capable missiles.
Perhaps the answer is in Kim Jong-un's speech during the DDG launch ceremony:
<< They are equipped with a complete combat capability, developed and enhanced in our own way, to move freely in and out of the East Sea and the Pacific as if they were their own shipyard and launch an annihilating and retaliatory attack against hostile forces that seek to challenge the sovereignty of our State ......., wherever they are: coastal waters, ocean or land......>>
Certainly a light frigate sails on a mission not too far from its own coasts and therefore more easily identifiable, furthermore due to its displacement and size it will have limits on the number and type of armament, therefore it cannot carry out the same missions as the DDG which in the smell of a crisis that can lead to an armed conflict, could position itself far away in the oceans and therefore a more difficult target to constantly monitor by potential adversaries, positionings that the DDGs under construction could alternatively carry out, thus always maintaining a unit (armed with missiles with nuclear warheads) in the high seas keeping busy the "adversaries" trying to monitor him.
Anyway, it remains only my personal supposition.
Also the Andrea Dorias and Vittorio Veneto had them