UN experts told Reuters a North Korean missile landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Reuters reported on Tuesday that UN sanctions monitors informed a Security Council committee in a report that the remnants of a missile that landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on January 2 indicate that it was a North Korean Hwasong-11 ballistic missile.
Reuters says it saw the document on Monday and, quoting the report, writes that North Korea has thus violated international sanctions.
North Korea has been under UN missile and nuclear sanctions since 2006.
Three UN sanctions monitors traveled to Ukraine earlier this month to inspect the debris and found no evidence of the missile’s manufacture. They were unable to independently determine where the missile was launched from or by whom, but they stated that based on Ukrainian tracking information, the missile was launched from a point inside Russian territory.