Russia is providing technical support to north korea for its nuclear weapon says : Tulsi gabbard Director national intelligence

Russia is aiding North Korea in modernizing its nuclear weapons delivery systems, according to Ukraine's top military intelligence official.

The disclosure could reinforce long-standing suspicions among U.S. and South Korean officials that North Korea has been receiving technical support in exchange for providing weapons and troops to bolster Russia's war effort in Ukraine.

The deployment of an estimated 11,000 North Korean troops to join Russian forces fighting a Ukrainian insurgency in the Kursk region late last year further escalated tensions on the Korean Peninsula, already at their highest levels in decades.

Kim continues to expand his United Nations-sanctioned nuclear program and test increasingly advanced ballistic missiles—justifying the moves as responses to "provocations" from Washington and its allies.

Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's military intelligence agency, told local media that while Russia was unlikely to assist Iran in building nuclear weapons, technical support to North Korea was already underway.