[pepsionice]

Where did the NY Times get this piece? CIA leaker? Or some Brit fake intelligence unit? If this is true though....the Yuzhmash folks need to be shut down.

[TigerLikesRooster]

It is from a report published by The International Institute for Strategic Studies. Following is the link to the report:

The secret to North Korea’s ICBM success

[TigerLikesRooster]

It does not have any evidence to implicate Ukrainian state or Yuzhmash management. They are just saying that NK rocket design is a modified version of RD-250 rocket Yuzhmash used to produce. The report argues that the sudden leap in N. Korea's rocket technology is a result of smuggling in the RD-250 rocket engines and technical help by rocket engineers with intimate knowledge of the engine because there is no past history to indicate that N. Korea has been experimenting anything close to this type of engine.

However, since there are other places which also had acquired the rocket engines, they may come from different sources. Nobody know who got hold of the engines from where and how they were transported.

They just suspect that rogue Yuzhmash employees and organized crime syndicates could be involved.