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South Korea's intelligence service is conducting a review into suspicions that North Korea has provided Russia with artillery shells and other weaponry manufactured in the 1970s, the country's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on May 12. The NIS' remarks come in response to recent South Korean media reports that allege 122 mm artillery shells manufactured in North Korea in the 1970s were used on Ukraine's eastern front. Both Ukrainian and U.S. officials have previously confirmed that Russia has been using North Korean-produced weaponry to attack Ukraine. "The NIS is analyzing the releva...
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Around half of the North Korean missiles fired at Ukraine by Russia have malfunctioned and exploded in mid-air, Reuters reported on May 7, citing Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office. In March, Ukrainian prosecutors reported that Russia had fired around 50 to attack six Ukrainian oblasts since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. According to Reuters, Ukrainian prosecutors have examined the debris of 21 and provided the news agency with data on their failure rate. "About half of the North Korean missiles lost their programmed trajectories and exploded in the air – in such cases, the debr...
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Russia has been shipping refined petroleum to North Korea in volumes that may violate the U.N. Security Council's restrictions, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on May 2, according to Reuters. The reports came after the Financial Times wrote that Moscow was defying U.N. sanctions by supplying North Korea with oil, likely in exchange for weapons. Pyongyang is subject to a strict cap on oil transfers, imposed by the U.N. Security Council in 2017 after a series of nuclear weapons tests. Moscow supplied over 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to North Korea in March al...
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A North Korean economic delegation was on its way to Iran on April 24, according to state-run media from Pyongyang, in what would be the first official talks between the two countries in almost five years. Western officials have voiced growing concern about the strengthening alliance between Iran, North Korea, and, to a lesser extent, China, which have become the principal military suppliers of Russia's full-scale against Ukraine. Iran and North Korea have long been pariah countries on the global stage. Russia has increasingly joined them since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 as it ...
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Russia's use of North Korean missiles during its offensive in Ukraine presents a unique opportunity for Pyongyang to assess its weaponry in actual combat scenarios, potentially gaining insights to enhance their effectiveness, according to a senior U.S. military official. "I don’t believe that in my recent memory the North Korean military has had a battlefield laboratory quite like the Russians are affording them to have in Ukraine," General Charles Flynn, the U.S. Army Pacific’s commanding general said, Bloomberg reports. North Korea is emerging as a primary weapons provider for Russia, allege...
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There had been at least 10 cases of Russia using North Korean missiles to strike Ukraine, said Jung Pak, the U.S. Senior Official for North Korea, as reported by the Voice of America (VoA) on March 18. North Korea has been shaping up as Russia's leading weapons supplier, reportedly providing Moscow with extensive military packages, including ballistic missilesand over 3 million artillery shells. Oleksandr Filchakov, the head of the Kharkiv Oblast prosecutor's office, said on March 14 that Russia had used nearly 50 North Korean missiles to attack Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale in...
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Russia has used around 50 North Korean missiles to attack six Ukrainian oblasts since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Oleksandr Filchakov, the head of the Kharkiv Oblast prosecutor's office, said on March 14 during a press conference. North Korea has been shaping up as Russia's leading weapons supplier, reportedly providing Moscow with extensive military packages, including ballistic missilesand over 3 million artillery shells. In Kharkiv Oblast, only one case of Russia using North Korean Hwasong 11 (KN-23/24) missile was officially confirmed, Filchakov said, referring to Russia's at...
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North Korea reportedly sent 6,700 ammunition containers to Russia following the Sept. 2023 summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea's Defense Ministry announced on Feb. 27. South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik told the news outlet Yonhap that North Korean munition factories are "working at full capacity" to supply Russia with ammunition. Moscow is providing food and other necessities, including raw materials, in exchange for weapons supplies. "While North Korea's arms factories operate at 30 percent capacity due to shortages of raw ...
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Key developments on Feb. 22: Military: Ukrainian strike in occupied Kherson Oblast kills around 60 Russian soldiersUS State Department: 'We do not believe Putin has advantage in the war'SBU: Russian strikes with North Korean missiles have killed 24 civilians in UkraineDenmark signs 10-year security agreement with Ukraine, announces new $247 million military aid packageUkrainian forces struck a Russian military training ground in the occupied part of Kherson Oblast, killing around 60 Russian soldiers, Nataliia Humeniuk, a spokesperson of Ukraine's Southern Operational Command, said on Feb. 22. ...
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Key updates on Feb. 21: BBC reports Ukrainian HIMARS strike in occupied Donetsk Oblast kills dozens of Russian troopsReuters: Iran supplies 'hundreds of ballistic missiles' to RussiaRussia used 2 Zircon hypersonic missiles in Feb. 7 attack, expert saysReport: North Korean missiles used by Russia against Ukraine contain US, European componentsUkraine denies Russia's claim that it captured village in Kherson OblastUkrainian troops launched two HIMARS missiles against a Russian military training ground in occupied areas of Donetsk Oblast's Volnovakha district where Russian troops were stationed, ...
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