Oleg Davygora22:08, 20.10.24
North Korean engineers sent to Russian forces in Ukraine appear to be supporting launches of North Korean-made weapons.
South Korea’s spy agency said it had identified a North Korean missile engineer who was present at a Russian missile launch on the front line in eastern Ukraine .
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said the engineer was likely the same person who accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on an inspection of a munitions factory last year, NHK reported .
The agency analyzed a photograph believed to have been taken near Ukraine’s Donetsk region on an unspecified date. The site is believed to be a launch site for North Korean-made short-range ballistic missiles.
The agency said facial recognition technology concluded there was a greater than 80 percent chance that one of the people in the photo was an engineer who accompanied Kim on a visit to a mobile missile plant last August.
It says North Korean engineers sent to Russian forces in Ukraine appear to be supporting the launch of North Korean-made weapons and seeking new technologies. The agency says North Korea has already begun to participate in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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