The UN Security Council reported on North Korean missiles used by Russia in Ukraine | News of the war between Russia and Ukraine

North Korea is capable of producing ballistic missiles And supplied to Russia They are set to be used in Ukraine within months, researchers have told the UN Security Council, after the discovery of North Korean missile remnants on a Ukrainian battlefield.

Jonah Lev, head of the UK-based Conflict Armaments Research Centre, which tracks weapons used in conflicts, including Russia’s war on Ukraine, told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that the remains of four North Korean missiles were found in Ukraine in July and August. Among them is one missile. Which indicates that it was produced in the year 2024.

“This is the first public evidence of missiles being produced in North Korea and then being used in Ukraine within months, not years,” Lev told the council.

In June, Lev also briefed the UN Security Council that his organization had proven “indisputably” that ballistic missile remnants found in Ukraine early this year were from a missile manufactured in North Korea.

The report on Russia’s use of North Korean missiles in Ukraine came at a time when Pyongyang said its military alliance with Russia had proven to be “extremely effective” in deterring the United States and its “affiliated forces.”

In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Thursday, an unnamed North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Washington and its allies are prolonging the war in Ukraine and destabilizing the security situation in Europe, Asia and the Pacific.

The “insanity” of the “hostile forces’ response” suggests that increased cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow “effectively prevents the expansion of U.S. and Western influence poorly,” the official said.

Russia and North Korea recently ratified a mutual defense agreement and more 10,000 North Korean soldiers It was deployed to assist Russia in its war on Ukraine, according to US and South Korean officials.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have confirmed the presence of North Korean forces in Russia. The statement issued Thursday did not mention North Korea’s involvement in Ukraine or the heavy casualties that Ukrainian and American officials say North Korean forces suffered in fighting in Russia’s Kursk region.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday that the country’s National Intelligence Service said at least 100 North Korean soldiers had been killed so far in the war and about 1,000 others were wounded.

The National Intelligence Service told South Korean lawmakers in a closed meeting that inexperienced North Korean forces are being used by Russia as a “front-line offensive force” and that they are suffering losses due to unfamiliarity with the terrain and lack “the ability to respond to drone attacks.” “By Ukrainian forces.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a social media post over the weekend that the losses suffered by North Korean forces were “already noticeable.” South Korea, the United States, the European Union and eight other countries signed a joint statement on Monday condemning North Korea’s increasing involvement in Russia’s war in Ukraine, which they said constitutes a “dangerous expansion of the conflict, with serious consequences for Europe and the United States.” Indo-Pacific security.”

During the UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday, the United States also expressed its concern that Russia is close to accepting that North Korea possesses nuclear weapons.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said: “It is alarming that we assess that Russia may be close to accepting North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, reflecting Moscow’s decades-long commitment to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.”

“We believe that Moscow will become more reluctant not only to criticize Pyongyang’s development of nuclear weapons, but also to block the passage of sanctions or resolutions condemning North Korea’s destabilizing behavior,” she said.

Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, did not mention North Korea’s nuclear program when he addressed the Council. He defended the growing cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang as Russia’s sovereign right.

He added: “Russian cooperation with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea… is consistent with international law, and does not constitute a violation of it,” referring to North Korea by the abbreviation of its official name.

“This is not directed against any third country. He added: “It does not pose any threat to the countries of the region or the international community, and we have no doubt that we will continue to develop this cooperation.”