The Daily Signal: Ukraine says its rocket engines not behind N.Korea’s missile success

Published Aug. 22, 2017. Updated Aug. 22 at 10:11 am

(FILES) This file photo taken on August 25, 2016 shows a man at a railway station in Seoul watching a television screen reporting news of North Korea's latest submarine-launched ballistic missile test.Recent satellite photos suggest North Korea could be preparing for fresh submarine-based ballistic missile tests, an expert on its military said on August 11, 2017. Joseph Bermudez, a specialist in North Korean defense and intelligence affairs, posted photographs on the authoritative 38 North blog of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University which he said could show preparations for a test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). / AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE

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In 2011, Denys Antipov, who was then a Korean language student at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, received an unusual request from the Security Service of Ukraine—the country’s successor agency to the KGB.

The Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, needed Antipov’s help in a delicate counterintelligence operation. In an undercover sting, the security agency had nabbed two North Korean spies trying to steal rocket technology from Ukrainian engineers at the KB Yuzhnoye Design Office in the city of Dnipro, called Dnipropetrovsk at that time.