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Sariwon-class corvette is a corvette. It was built by Unknown - built somewhere in North Korea. Reported operators include KPA Naval Force.
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PG Sariwon-Class
Unknown - built somewhere in North Korea
KPA Naval Force
1960s
5
5
Corvette
450 tons
650 tons full load
61.5 metres (202 ft)
7.5 metres (25 ft)
2.4 metres (7.9 ft)
2 x diesel engines
conventional
16 knots (30 km/h)
2,700 nautical miles (5,000 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
One, mounted on davits in break in superstructure
Surface search: ? Navigational: Type 351 Radar
None - only 4 x 6lbs decoy RL
Four 57 mm/80 (2 twin); Four 37 mm/6 (2 twin); 16 14.5 mm machine guns (4 quad); Two depth charge rails; 30 RBU-1200 mines
Based on Soviet 1930s Fugas-class Tral-type minesweeper . Ships in class include: 611, 612, 613, 614, 671
The Sariwon class corvette(사리원급 초계함) is a Soviet -designed corvette used by North Korea .
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Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 61.5 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
Sariwon-class corvette equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
North KoreaNavy exact named equipment holdings: Sariwon. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: PATROL AND COASTAL COMBATANTS / FS. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Navy exact named class holdings of Sariwon. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): PATROL AND COASTAL COMBATANTS / FS. No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. The own fetched design source declares this exact class and its PDF operator country; ship capacities and fitted launcher/armament counts are retained as source scope, not added to hull quantities.
Reported count for Sariwon-class. Service scope: Korean People's Navy; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct quantity component(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Explicit source inventory scope: active; no other stock status or total inferred. Count column(s): in service: 5. Origin: unstated. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.