One of the oldest plays in the North Korean playbook involves making their portly leader look as heroic and awe-inspiring as possible through highly manicured photos. (They haven't always worked, mind you.

North Korea's latest proud military accomplishment has lurched from disaster to fiasco as their new warship remains overturned weeks after a botched launch that left Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un seething.

North Korea righted a capsized 5,000-ton warship and moored it at a pier in the Chongjin Shipyard state-run media reported, two weeks after a failed launch that leader Kim Jong Un condemned as a "criminal act.