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North Korea likely can make missile engines without imports: U.S. Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea likely has the ability to produce its own missile engines and intelligence suggests it does not need to rely on imports, U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday. The assessment disputes a new study by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies that said that the engines for a nuclear missile North Korea is developing to hit the United States likely were made in factories in Ukraine or Russia and probably obtained via black market networks. The New York Times cited the study on...

Russia has all grounds, opportunities to supply engines for N.Korean missiles – Ukraine’s State Space Agency Given Moscow’s friendly relations with Pyongyang and the availability of seven to 20 pieces of ready-made "Tsyklon 2" and "Tsyklon 3" rockets, Russia has every reason and opportunity for the supply to North Korea of missile engines and technology that can be used for military purposes, acting chief of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Yury Radchenko told a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday. At the press conference, the official refuted the report by The New York Times claiming that the success of...

Ukraine denies selling missile technology to North Korea KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine denied on Monday that it had ever supplied defense technology to North Korea, responding to an article in the New York Times that said North Korea may have purchased rocket engines from Ukrainian factory Yuzhmash. Concern that North Korea is close to achieving its goal of putting the mainland United States within range of a nuclear weapon has raised global tensions in recent weeks. The United States is a key backer of Ukraine.

North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile program, according to an expert analysis being published Monday and classified assessments by American intelligence agencies. The studies may solve the mystery of how North Korea began succeeding so suddenly after a string of fiery missile failures, some of which may have been caused by American sabotage of its supply chains...