North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (sitting) visits the naval destroyer Kang Kon and observes its sea trials on June 4, 2026, according to footage aired by Korean Central Television (KCTV) on June 6. His daughter Kim Ju-ae is standing behind him.

Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter were snapped among military officials on a chilling warship days before a visit from China's Xi Jinping

Kim visited the 5,000-ton destroyer Kang Kon with his daughter.

One of the officials told CBS News that the fire knocked out power and propulsion on the guided-missile destroyer, a mainstay of the Navy's forward presence in Asia.

House authorizers want additional funding for the Navy to buy a second guided-missile destroyer in the next fiscal year, according to new legislation. The bill, released Tuesday, authorizes $500 million in incremental funding for the Navy to buy another Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer,

China’s navy has added its 35th Type 052D guided-missile destroyer to active service, a production milestone that no Western fleet has matched in the same class over a comparable period. The commissioning sharpens a disparity that U.

Two U.S. Navy destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Persian Gulf after navigating an Iranian barrage, according to defense officials.

Fresh tensions are erupting in the Middle East after Iran claimed it targeted a US military command-and-control center aboard an American naval destroyer operating in the Sea of Oman. Tehran said the action was carried out in response to alleged US aggression against Iranian commercial shipping and violations near the Strait of Hormuz.