South Korea has identified a North Korean missile engineer who participated in the launch of a Russian missile on the front line in eastern Ukraine.
The engineer is likely the same person who accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong-in on a 2023 inspection of a munitions factory. This was stated by the National Intelligence Service of South Korea, reports the Japanese agency NHK.
In Seoul, they analyzed a photograph that was probably taken at an unknown date near the Donetsk region. The area is a launch site for North Korean-made short-range ballistic missiles.
It is noted that facial recognition technology makes it possible with more than 80 percent probability that one person in the photo is an engineer who accompanied Kim last August during a visit to a plant that produces mobile missile launchers.
South Korean intelligence believes that DPRK engineers in Ukraine, in all likelihood, support the launch of North Korean-made weapons, and are also searching for new technologies.
Let us recall that a military satellite of South Korea, equipped with a synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can collect data regardless of the weather using remote sensing systems, recorded 1 thousand 500 special forces soldiers of the DPRK army in the Russian Vladivostok.
Source: NHK
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