Reuters learned about increasing the accuracy of the Russian Federation of North Korean missiles

The North Korean Ballistic Missiles, released in Ukraine by Russian troops since late December, “have been much more accurate than the volleys of weapons produced in the last year”, citing two high -ranking Ukrainian sources, Reuters reports, writes, writes, writes, writes, writes UNN.

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“While Moscow’s growing connections with Pyongyang cause alarm from Washington to Seoul, increased accuracy – within 50-100 m from the intended purpose – assumes that North Korea successfully uses the battlefield to test their missile technology,” writes the publication with reference to words of sources. Earlier, “the accuracy of rockets was 1-3 kilometers”, the military source reported in an interview in Kiev, first revealing a previously not published rating. The source refused to publicly disclose what was the purpose of which the rockets were released or the attacks were released by referring to military secret.

The military source, as noted, “described a significant improvement in the accuracy of more than 20 North Korean ballistic missiles that struck Ukraine in the last few weeks.” The second source, high -ranking official, familiar with this issue, “confirmed the conclusions” when asked, the publication notes.

Jan UK, arms expert at the Asana Study Institute of Political Research, said such improvements in North Korea missile capabilities have alarming consequences for its potential to threaten South Korea, Japan and the United States, or sell modernized weapons to “insolvent”.

“It can affect stability in the region and the world,” he said.

Military expert Jan said that his security contacts in Ukraine were also independently reported “improvement of the latest parties of North Korean missiles”.

“Because they produce rockets and receive feedback from clients – the Russian army – they have more experience in the production of more reliable missiles,” he said.

Sources and Yang said that “it is unclear what modifications made North Korea,” the newspaper writes.

The military source said that “the forensic analysis conducted on the wreckage did not find changes in the design of rockets, although there were very little wreckage for the analysis.”

According to the source, “two possible explanations were that the missiles were equipped with the best navigation systems or control mechanism to facilitate maneuvering,” the publication notes.

According to Jan, other factors that can increase accuracy include better crew information, new components of the guidance system provided by Russia, and improvements based on data and experiences that North Korean scientists have collected during the war.

“Russia has started launched North Korean Ballistic Missiles K-23, K-23A and K-24 in Ukraine at the end of 2023 and has released about 100 since then,” the source said.

According to the source, “increasing the accuracy of weapons occurred suddenly after months of inaccurate launches.”

Reuters, as noted, could not independently check the score of sources.

Recall

In February 2024, the Security Service of Ukraine indicated that the Security Service documented the facts of the Russian Federation Air Attack on Civilian Infrastructure of Ukraine with the use of long-range weapons of North Korea-it was about ballistic missiles of the Hwasong-11 (KN-23/24), which are produced in the DPRK.