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The Defense Intelligence Agency received the OSINT Foundation’s 2024 Product of the Year Award for an Indo-Pacific Regional Center-led report examining North Korea’s role in enabling Russian missile strikes against Ukraine. The honor was presented Nov. 22 at the foundation’s annual awards reception in Falls Church, Virginia, attended by senior leaders from the FBI, CIA and U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command.
The award recognizes a finished, unclassified and publicly available open-source intelligence product that delivers exceptional value to the nation, advances an organization’s mission and demonstrates the public benefit of OSINT.
Foundation officials praised the DIA product for translating a complex, highly technical topic with extensive sourcing into an accessible, reader-friendly assessment for audiences inside and outside the intelligence community.
The unclassified booklet traces the deepening relationship between Russia and North Korea, provides background on Pyongyang’s missile program and highlights systems the regime has supplied to Moscow. It also pairs imagery from North Korean state media with missile debris recovered in Ukraine to support the assessment that Russian forces are using North Korean missiles.
The publication, North Korea: Enabling Russian Missile Strikes Against Ukraine, is publicly available on the DIA website: https://www.dia.mil/Portals/110/Documents/News/Military_Power_Publications/DPRK_Russia_NK_Enabling_Russian_Missile_Strikes_Against_Ukraine.pdf
The recognition underscores the DIA’s growing use of unclassified, open-source analysis to inform policymakers and the public on fast-moving security developments in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.
