▲ Missile wreckage found in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after a Russian airstrike on January 2, 2024 (local time). Its appearance is similar to North Korea’s Hwasong-11 (KN-23) type missile. On the right is the Hwasong-11 missile that was captured when North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un gave a field visit to major military factories, including a tactical missile production plant, in August last year. First unveiled during North Korea’s military parade in February 2018, this missile is the latest short-range ballistic missile (SRBM), with its first test launch in May 2019. It was made by imitating the ‘Iskander’ from Russia, but there are differences in appearance. 2024.1.5 Bayeny Asvedamitele Telegram About half of the North Korean missiles launched by Russia towards Ukraine were said to have malfunctioned and exploded in the air.
Reuters reported on the 7th (local time) that Ukrainian authorities have collected and analyzed traces of dozens of North Korean missiles fired by Russia into Ukraine.
The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office, which is investigating war crimes in Russia, said experts had collected and analyzed the remains of 21 of the approximately 50 North Korean ballistic missiles launched towards six Ukrainian oblasts between December last year and this February, and it showed those results. they had a high failure rate It was said that it was found that
The prosecution further explained that the locations where the North Korean missiles were fired were various, including Belgorod, Voronezh, and Kurusk in western Russia.
The office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, explained, “About half of the North Korean missiles deviated from the programmed path and exploded in the air,” adding, “In this case, the debris could not be collected.”
However, when it was impossible to collect the debris, the investigation was carried out based on the missile’s flight path, speed, and launch origin, and it was confirmed that the Hwasong-11 (KN-23) missile, also known as the ‘North Version was used Korea from Iskender’, said the prosecution. At the same time, he added that the last time the missile was launched was on February 27th.
In addition, the prosecution added, “We are investigating whether North Korea sent personnel to Russia to observe the ballistic missile launch process.”
South Korea and the United States are concerned about Russia’s alleged use of North Korean missiles
▲ Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un meet and shake hands at the Vostochny Cosmodrome on the outskirts of Tsiolkovsky City, about 200 km from Blagoveshchensk in eastern Russia, on September 13, 2023. / Photo = AFP Yonhap News Russia’s use of North Korean missiles in the Ukraine war is only a small part, but it raises concerns in the United States and South Korea, Reuters noted. This is because he predicts that the consensus among the permanent members of the UN Security Council to block the proliferation of North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, which has lasted for almost 20 years, may end with military cooperation between Russia and North Korea .
As well as giving North Korea the opportunity to test its missiles, Russia has taken steps to make it more difficult to monitor sanctions imposed by the United Nations on North Korea in 2006.
Last March, Russia vetoed a resolution to extend the term of the North Korea Sanctions Committee expert panel. China, one of the five permanent members of the Security Council along with Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, abstained from the vote.
On the 29th of last month, a few days before the end of its mission, the North Korean Sanctions Committee presented a report confirming for the first time that a North Korean Hwasong-11 missile had hit the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine in violation of UN sanctions .
According to the report, inspectors concluded that the fragments recovered from the missile that Russia fired into Kharkiv on January 2, killing at least three people and injuring dozens, came from North Korea’s Hwasong-11 missile . Inspectors who examined the wreckage during an on-site inspection said they “found no evidence that this missile was made by Russia.”
Regarding this, Edward Howell, an expert in North Korea at the University of Oxford, drew attention to the fact that this emphasizes how Russia and North Korea have strengthened their relationship beyond transaction and barter agreements.
North Korea has established itself as Russia’s main arms supplier, providing Russia with a wide range of military packages, including more than 3 million artillery shells as well as ballistic missiles.
Reporter Taehee Yoon
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