North Korea has solved a big mistake in one of his rockets after Russia used it against Ukraine, says Kyiv’s spy chief, says Kyiv boss

• The spy chief of Ukraine said that Russia had helped North Korea to repair a severe accuracy error in his KN-23 rockets.

• It is often a ballistic rocket with a range of over 400 miles compared to the ISKANDAR-M.

• Budanov quoted the KN-23 as an example of how Pyongyang wins from his fight against Ukraine.

The North Korean KN-23 rockets had an accuracy error of Russian technicians when they were used against Ukraine, said Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukraine secret service agency.

In conversation with the South Korean media outlet Chosun Ilbo, Budanov quoted the rocket as an example of Pyongyang’s combat technology, which received significant improvements from the active fights.

“At first its accuracy was severely faulty with an error edge of 500 to 1,500 meters,” he said in an interview, which was published on Monday. “But Russian rocket experts have made technical changes and solved the problem. The rocket is now significantly more precise and a much greater threat.”

The KN-23 is the US name of the US rocket, but North Korea called it the Hasong-11a. It is believed that the solid ballistic rocket has a range of around 430 miles and is often compared with a typical payload of up to £ 1,100.

It is one of the newer weapons of North Korea that debut during a parade in 2018 and enables a reach to take a deep into South Korea. In July Pyongyang said that an advanced version of the rocket tested the Hwasong-11da-4.5, which explains that it could wear a 4.5-ton blast.

The White House announced in January 2024 that Russia fired several North Korean short-distance ballistic rockets against Ukraine, and it is generally assumed that these were the KN-23 and KN-24.

With regard to the strikes, the South Korean ambassador to the United Nations said at the time that North Korea used Ukraine as the “test point of its nuclear rockets”.

During his interview with Chosun Ilbo, Budanov said that the collaboration between Russia and North Korea “achieved the highest level”, which warned of an increased threat to Pyongyang’s enemies in Asia.

“North Korea uses this war to gain combat experience and modernize its military technology,” he told the outlet. “This will have permanent consequences for the security landscape in the Asian-Pacific region.”

North Korea’s lessons from the war

The West and Seoul were particularly concerned about what they appreciate that 12,000 North Korean special units are used in Kursk.

According to the western secret services, around 4,000 of these soldiers have been wounded or killed since then. However, Pyöngjang’s direct engagement has triggered the fears that his surviving troops will accept invaluable campaign experiences and knowledge of modern war.

Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy head of the Ukraine intelligence agency, told Chosun Ilbo that the North Korean troops learn quickly.

“Their fighting has improved dramatically, not only with conventional weapons such as tanks, but also with advanced systems such as drones,” Skibitskyi told the outlet.

In Pyongyangs soldiers, it was initially reported that in Ukrainian positions in top -class attacks, they are often accused of, which indicates a force that is prepared to aggressively follow orders in view of death.

In the early days of the North Korean troop encounter, the Ukrainian sources also stated that Pyongyang’s troops did not seem to know that drones could kill them.

But there are some hints that you adapt.

In January, the Special Forces of Ukraine published the excerpts of the diary of a North Korean soldier, one of whom a tactic described to send a soldier into the open bait drones, which could then be shot down by comrades.

In return for his troops and weapons, the North Korean leader Kim Jong UN will receive as technical support from Russia for his room and weapon programs as well as cash, raw materials and food.

Their cooperation underlines an burgeoning relationship between Pyongyang and Moscow, because both try to support each other to help weather international sanctions against their economies.

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