North Korea recently provided Russia with ballistic missile launchers and several dozen ballistic missiles, a U.S. official said Thursday, as Moscow seeks to replenish its weapons stockpiles amid its protracted war in Ukraine. "Due in part to our sanctions and export controls, Russia has become increasingly isolated on the world stage and been forced to look to like-minded states for military equipment. As we have been warning publicly, one of those states is North Korea," the official told Yonhap News Agency via email. "Our information indicates that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea recently provided Russia with ballistic missile launchers and several dozen ballistic missiles," the official added, referring to the North by its official name. Earlier in the day, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing officials, that in the past several weeks, Pyongyang has begun to ship short-range ballistic missiles to eastern Russia. Source: Yonhap News Agency