The Russian Federation provided the DPRK with materials and documentation for the production of KN-23 missiles-Defense Express

It is about the elements of the march engine of the rocket, marking, as well as the chemical composition of the materials of the fuel tank, which used Russian brands of steel. Ukrainian experts have studied the fragments of North Korean ballistic missiles KN-23 used by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure in early 2024.

The analysis showed that some elements of these missiles were made using Russian raw materials and technical documentation, which confirms close cooperation between Russia and the DPRK in the field of missile technologies. Defense Express observers were told on July 18.

In a study conducted by the Central Research Institute of Weapons and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Central of the Armed Forces of Ukraine), the following features were revealed: "The above data may not look sensational if the fact that North Korea receives rocket technologies from Moscow since the Soviet times, "the observers emphasized.

As an example, they cited the fact that in the 1990s, Russia and North Korea agreed to create a carrier rocket based on the Ballistic R-27 Maritime Base Missile. And as a result, after 2010, the DPRK appeared in the Hwasong-10 (Musudan) ballistic missile, which is suspicious of the P-27. This is a striking example of the transfer of Russian technologies under the cover of space programs.