24 Ukrainians have already been killed: the DPRK rockets found components from the US and Europe

Thus, after the first use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for shelling of a building in Kharkiv an unusual rocket, the expert began to disassemble her wreckage and photograph each piece, including screws and computer chips. She almost immediately realized that it was not a Russian rocket and set a task to prove it. Among the pieces of rocket, she found a tiny symbol of the Korean alphabet, and the number 112 was knocked out on parts of the building, which means 2023 in the DPRK.

Then the expert realized that it was the first significant proof that weapons from the DPRK were used for attacks on Ukraine. "We heard that they had delivered some weapons to Russia, but now I could see it, touch it, explore how no one before. I was very excited," she said. Since then, dozens of North Korean missiles in Ukraine have been killed, which have killed at least 24 people and have been injured by more than 70.

The rocket has been full of the latest foreign technologies, and much of its components have been manufactured in the recent years in the United States and Europe. Among the wreckage were found high -tech components of mostly American, Taiwanese, Japanese production and production of other "free world" countries.

Among the spare parts was a computer chip manufactured by the United States, made only in March 2023, indicating that North Korea had established the purchase of key components of weapons bypassing many years of sanctions. "It was the biggest surprise - despite being under harsh sanctions for almost two decades, North Korea can still get everything she needed for weapons production, and at extraordinary speed.

I never thought I would see North Korea ballistic missiles To kill people on European land, ”says Demyen Splitters, Deputy Director of CAR. North Korea has estimated that about 7,000 containers filled with more than a million shells and rockets that can be released from trucks by large volley were estimated by North Korea.

"These shells and missiles are one of the most popular things in the world today, and they allow Russia to continue to fire Ukrainian cities at a time when the US and Europe are hesitating, which weapons to provide," Burne says. Russia can also supply raw materials to the DPRK for the production of missiles or even military equipment, such as fighters, and - as a last resort, technical assistance to improve its nuclear weapons, experts said.