South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) confirmed today that the Islamist group Hamas is using North Korean-made anti-tank grenade launcher. despite the fact that Pyongyang denies the fact of trade with the armed wing of the organization.

An NIS official consulted by Yonhap accepted Friday’s information. Voice of America (Voice of America), which indicated that the detonator or fuse of a rocket – apparently an F-7 – was recently used by Hamas shows Korean characters and provided photographic evidence that this type of part was actually assembled just below the head of a regime-manufactured F-7.

F-7 is a high-explosive fragmentation missile. which North Korea developed to fire from a launcher based on the Soviet anti-tank RPG-7.

The above-mentioned source added that the NIS collecting more detailed evidence North Korea’s estimated arms deliveries to Hamas, from volumes to delivery dates.

In October, the South Korean military already stated that they suspected that North Korea may have directly or indirectly supplied weapons to Hamas after analyzing the attacks that militias carried out against Israel on October 7.

NIS itself also announced in November that it had received evidence of direct instructions from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un provide weapons assistance to organizations opposing Israel.

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The North Korean regime has publicly denied any ties to Hamas and called information indicating otherwise rumors spread by Washington.

(EFE)