The birth of the new-type multi-mission destroyer, which is an ensemble of the state economy and an aggregate of self-reliant defence technology and which is equipped with the powerful cutting-edge strike weapon systems of the Korean style which do not allow comparison, is a brilliant fruition of the iron faith and will and outstanding leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, who indicated the path for rapidly developing the naval force of the DPRK into a powerful treasured sword for defending justice and peace and a service equipped with the comprehensive fighting power with nuclear weapons as the main axis and is dynamically steering the rejuvenation of the warship-building industry, and a valuable victory won by the strong aspiration and indomitable advance of the Korean people to outpace the world with the conviction in their own strength and courageous struggle.
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/af24707e127494b9102a5ffa0145069f.kcmsf
It’s got AESA radars? I guess we’re starting to see some of what North Korea got in exchange for their support of Russia during the Russia-Ukraine war, technology exchange.
Those very large ten vertical launch systems (VLS) at the back are probably for ballistic missiles like the KN-23, which has seen extensive use by Russia in their war against Ukraine. They could be nuclear tipped, along with some of the longer range cruise missiles in the other VLS pods.
Like the submarines they’ve also recently unveiled, survivability in an actual conflict against South Korea and/or the USA is a key issue and likely not very high, these kind of assets are the first thing that gets targeted in an actual war. The main deterrence value of these assets is them getting a shot off, potentially a nuclear one, before getting targeted. They’d need a much larger fleet of them, with advanced air defence systems on these ships themselves (or supporting vessels) capable of targeting both stealthy subsonic cruise (JASSM/LRASM) and high speed supersonic (SM-6, Mach 3.5 top speed) missiles to survive. I guess that’s what the AESA radar and smaller VLS pods are for.