WorldWASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea likely has the ability to produce its own missile engines and intelligence suggests it does not need to rely on imports, U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday. "We have intelligence to suggest that North Korea is not reliant on imports of engines," one U.S. intelligence official told Reuters. Ukraine denied that it had ever supplied defense technology to North Korea. The study based its conclusions mainly on photographs published by North Korea of missile engines that it ground-tested in September and March and flight-tested on Hwasong-12 and Hwasong-14 missiles in May and July. Hwasong-12 is an intermediate-range rocket and Hwasong-14 is an intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea has designed to reach the U.S. mainland.

Source: Sunday Times August 15, 2017 23:15 UTC