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Russia Found to Use North Korea Missiles With Western Parts

Ukrainian researchers say they’ve discovered components produced by western companies in North Korean missiles Russia used to attack the country, highlighting the need to enforce export controls.

Western components include integrated circuits crucial to missiles’ navigation and communication systems, Viktoria Vyshnivska, NAKO’s senior researcher, told a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday. Russia is still obtaining vital Western components to build missiles it uses to attack Ukraine’s people and energy and trade infrastructure, despite ever-growing sanctions intended to prevent such technology transfers, Bloomberg reported earlier in October. While most components in the missile analyzed by NAKO were manufactured by US companies, including Analog Devices Inc. and Broadcom Inc., some were made by the Swiss TRACO Electronic AG, the British XP Power Ltd and the Dutch NXP Semiconductors N.V. last year, the investigators said.

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