The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Jan. 2 was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday (April 29). - REUTERS
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00:00 Missile debris that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on January 2 was from a North
00:06 Korean ballistic missile. That's according to a report from United Nations sanctions
00:12 monitors to a Security Council committee and seen by Reuters on Monday.
00:18 This footage is from days after the January strike. At the time, the local prosecutor's
00:23 office showed fragments of the missile to the media, suggesting they could have been
00:27 from one supplied by North Korea. In the report, the monitors concluded that the debris was
00:32 from a Hwasong-11 series missile and is in violation of the arms embargo on North Korea.
00:39 It's been under UN sanctions since 2006 over its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
00:46 In their report, the monitors say they quote, could not independently identify from where
00:51 the missile was launched, nor by whom. Information about the missile's trajectory, supplied
00:56 by Ukraine, suggests it was launched from Russia, the report says.
01:02 Russia and the DPRK must be held accountable for their actions.
01:05 The US and others have previously accused North Korea of transferring weapons to Russia
01:10 to use against Ukraine, which it invaded over two years ago. Both have denied the accusations.
01:17 Last year, they vowed to deepen military relations.
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