North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68933778 North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger 4 hours ago By Jean Mackenzie,Seoul correspondent On 2 January, a young Ukrainian weapons inspector, Krystyna Kimachuk, got word that an unusual-looking missile had crashed into a building in the city of Kharkiv. She began calling her contacts in the Ukrainian military, desperate to get her hands on it. Within a week, she had the mangled debris splayed out in front of her at a secure location in the capital Kyiv. Ms Kimachuk works for Conflict Armament Research (CAR), an organisation that retrieves weapons used in war, to work out how they were made. But it wasn't until after she had finished photographing the wreckage of the missile and her team analysed its hundreds of components, that the most jaw-dropping revelation came. It was bursting with the latest foreign technology. Most of the electronic parts had been manufactured in the US and Europe over the past few years. There was even a US computer chip made as recently as March 2023. This meant that North Korea had illicitly procured vital weapons components, snuck them into the country, assembled the missile, and shipped it to Russia in secret, where it had then been transported to the frontline and fired - all in a matter of months. "This was the biggest surprise, that despite being under severe sanctions for almost two decades, North Korea is still managing to get its hands on all it needs to make its weapons, and with extraordinary speed," said Damien Spleeters, the deputy director at CAR.

Photos of the Moon

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/503f/live/3a0331d0-070a-11ef-bee9-6125e244a4cd.jpg.webp Bruce Carrington: “In this tranquil image of Druridge Bay at low tide, the wet sands shimmer in the reflected moonlight. The lights of Blyth can be seen on the horizon.” https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/1cc4/live/15dd3260-070a-11ef-b2ce-15f024debdd3.jpg.webp Gary Peck: “Autumn on the Hunter River in New South Wales, Australia. Doing it easy, watching whatever passes by.” https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/a9d6/live/f3ba2ee0-0709-11ef-82e8-cd354766a224.jpg.webp Dusty Danis: “I waited patiently for the moon to fall to this small gap in the trees. Once it arrived in the location where I wanted, it was time to wait for a vehicle to come down the road. Not many vehicles travel here, so I got lucky with this one.” https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/5114/live/5dedaee0-070a-11ef-82e8-cd354766a224.jpg.webp Kevin Miller: “Peeking through a stormy night, South Jersey, USA” https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/bcb3/live/a0055cd0-070d-11ef-b2ce-15f024debdd3.jpg.webp Hannah Hinton: “I took this photo in Manang on the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal, the halfway point of our trek. We were up early in the freezing cold but it was so worth it for views like this.”