On a frosty January morning, amidst the ruins of a building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, a missile lay mangled but telling a significant story. Krystyna Kimachuk, a Ukrainian weapons inspector, found herself staring at the first concrete evidence of North Korean weaponry being used on European soil.

Confirmation can bring relief. This week, however, in the case of the United Nations confirming the use of North Korean missiles by the Kremlin terror cabal to carry out the genocide of Ukrainians, a belated report from the bureaucratic body brought none.

Pyongyang made the decision after concluding that Russia had gained the upper hand in its war with Ukraine.

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,

T he discovery of North Korean missile parts in Ukraine, inscribed with characters from the Korean alphabet and numbers indicative of recent manufacture dates, underscores a stark reality: despite international sanctions,