Ukraine’s Foreign Minister appeals to allies over Western components in downed North Korean missile

20 October 2024

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has urged allies to tighten sanctions and export controls following the discovery of newly manufactured Western components in a North Korean missile shot down in Ukraine.

Source: Sybiha on X (Twitter), reported by European Pravda

Details: Sybiha expressed outrage after the examination of a North Korean KN-23/24 missile, downed in Ukraine, revealed numerous recently manufactured Western-made components.

Quote: “Outrageous. Recent examination of a North Korean KN-23/24 missile shot down in Ukraine found numerous recently produced Western-made components. Putin and Kim still have access to them,” the minister stated.

He called on Ukraine’s allies to respond decisively by tightening sanctions, increasing control over export, and strengthening Ukraine’s air defence systems.

Background: 

  • Western intelligence believes that about half of the three million artillery shells Russia uses annually come from North Korea. 
  • In September, evidence also emerged of new deliveries of North Korean ballistic missiles to Moscow.

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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/10/20/7480562

One comment

  1. The fact cannot be whitewashed that our components are helping dictators such as putler and porky to slaughter Ukrainian men, women, and children each and every day and night. We are helping war criminals to commit their crimes. What are we doing about it? It seems that nothing is being done to stop this. It seems profits outrank human lives.
    If one day we should find ourselves at war with the russia or north korea, our components will also be killing our own soldiers. What then? Do profits still outrank human lives in this case?

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