Kyiv is in serious trouble: Rumors about the supply of missile technologies to the DPRK are beginning to be confirmed
It is much more likely that the rocket engines for the DPRK were supplied from Ukraine rather than from Russia.
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Michael Elleman, the author of a publication in The New York Times about Ukraine’s involvement in the development of the DPRK missile program, stated this in an interview with Voice of America.
In his opinion, the governments of Ukraine or Russia have nothing to do with the scandalous supplies, and these technologies were obtained through illegal channels. He also noted what two of his sources said. that this kind of engine modifications, which were seen in the DPRK, were previously seen in Ukraine.
Voice of America also asked the author of the investigation to assess his level of confidence regarding which country, Ukraine or Russia, was the source of technology transfer to the DPRK.
“I don’t think I can measure the probability, but based on what I know, and there is a lot that remains unknown to me, it is more likely that the technology came from Ukraine rather than from Russia. But if someone gives me evidence, or more evidence, that assessment could easily change,” Elleman said.
In turn, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the Russian defense industry, commenting on the scandal on his blog, wrote that to make a copy of the engine, you must have the original or its detailed drawings.
“And we can’t do without Ukrainian specialists who are capable and ready to launch production on someone else’s technological site. One way or another, we are talking about smuggling in circumvention of all existing extremely strict international prohibitions,” Rogozin is convinced.
It is noteworthy that if in the first days after publication in an American newspaper in Ukraine they categorically denied the possibility of Ukrainian rocket engines getting into the DPRK, now such a development is not ruled out.
“The DPRK does not have such huge money for its own developments, so it was much cheaper for them to find an approach to the Ukrainian side, naturally unofficial,” Alexander Degtyarev, general designer of the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, told Ukrainian journalists.
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