Vladimir Putin (R) and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (L). Stock photo: Getty Images

Many Russian specialists have travelled to North Korea to help it develop its own reconnaissance satellite, which it plans to put into orbit in the near future.

Source: South Korean news agency Yonhap

Details: The Kremlin sent its experts to the DPRK after Putin met with leader Kim Jong Un in September last year, promising to help North Korea with its space programme.

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Since that meeting, North Korea has conducted numerous rocket engine tests. 

“South Korea, the United States and other countries have condemned the DPRK’s space rocket launches, calling them a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that ban any launches using ballistic missile technology,” the agency writes. 

Background: Pretending to be Americans, North Korean technicians have signed remote work contracts with 300 US companies as part of a scheme aimed at financing Pyongyang’s illegal nuclear weapons and missile development programmes.

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