UN Claims to Find Evidence of Russia Using North Korean Missiles in Ukraine

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Jakarta –

The UN claims that the debris found in Ukraine, showing evidence of North Korean missile remains. The missiles were most likely given to Russia.

This makes geopolitical experts shudder. North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has vowed to strengthen military ties with Russia. Russia also continues to pour billions of dollars into military operations that the West considers could destabilize the world.

Western countries now accuse North Korea of sending weapons to Russia, and fear they will be used to attack Ukrainian civilians. Both Russia and North Korea deny this, but have vowed to strengthen their ties as world tensions rise.

Now, there seems to be evidence that North Korea has sent missiles. The 32-page UN report said that debris recovered from missiles in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on January 2, 2024 came from North Korea’s Hwasong-11 series missiles.

Three observers have visited the bomb site this month. They said they could not accurately identify where the missile was launched from, or by whom.

North Korea has been subject to UN sanctions over its ballistic missile and nuclear programs for nearly 20 years. It is now warning that it has violated an arms embargo imposed to reduce the threat of escalation with its neighboring countries.

“Information regarding the missile’s trajectory provided by the Ukrainian authorities indicates that the missile was launched from within the territory of the Russian Federation,” UN observers wrote as reported by detikINET from News.com Australia, Sunday (5/5/2024) in a report to the Korean sanctions committee North on the UN Security Council.

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“Such a location, if the missiles were under the control of Russian forces, would probably indicate procurement by citizens of the Russian Federation,” he continued.

These findings emerged several weeks later Russia vetoed the renewal of a team of experts set up by the UN to monitor North Korea’s compliance with applicable international sanctions.

*This article was written by Mohammad Frizki Pratama, a participant in the Merdeka Campus Certified Internship Program at detikcom.

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