The existing system of state export control rules out the possibility that military rocket engines are sold to countries under sanctions of the Security Council of the United Nations, including the RD-250 rocket engine and modifications, to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, says a report sent by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Turchynov heads a Working Group [created by Poroshenko] to check claims made in an article appearing on August 14 in The New York Times about the possible transfer of rocket engines to the DPRK.
“Summarizing the information referenced above and taking into account the proposals of the Interagency commission and materials of the state authorities over the issue in question, the Working Group has unanimously come to the conclusion: that Ukraine was not involved in the development of North Korea’s ballistic missiles program,” the report says.
The report also says Ukrainian export authorities since declaring independence [in 1991] have not approved any transfers of military technology to the DPRK, including rocket engines.
