{"id":1173545,"date":"2026-08-28T04:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1173545\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T04:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:34:16","slug":"russia-is-calling-on-north-korea-for-more-powerful-ballistic-missiles-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1173545\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia is calling on North Korea for more powerful ballistic missiles: Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has requested powerful ballistic missiles from North Korea, Kyiv\u2019s intelligence said, in addition to Moscow\u2019s currently deployed DPRK short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) variants like the KN-23 and KN-24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoscow has asked Pyongyang for new North Korean KN-30 ballistic missiles, which are three times more powerful than the KN-23\/24, but no transfer of these missiles from North Korea to Russia has been recorded so far,\u201d the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/DIUkraine\/9251\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Telegram on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The DIU post cited representative Andrii Cherniak\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liga.net\/ua\/war\/articles\/kndr-znovu-ozbroiuie-rosiiu-balistykoiu-chym-zahrozhuiut-ukraini-kn-2324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">media interview<\/a>, in which he said Moscow is currently in negotiations with Pyongyang over \u201canother<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia has requested powerful ballistic missiles from North Korea, Kyiv\u2019s intelligence said, in addition to Moscow\u2019s currently deployed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1173546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[95013,2598,332,2663,147247],"class_list":["post-1173545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-military-affairs","tag-missiles","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-wmd"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117171274855868626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}