Russia likely played a role in the success of North Korea’s satellite launch this week, South Korea’s intelligence agency told lawmakers on Thursday.

In a closed-door meeting with the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) assessed that the DPRK successfully launched its first military spy satellite into orbit on Tuesday night, confirming Pyongyang’s claims.

The agency cited the summit between Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin at the Cosmodrome Vostochny spaceport in September as evidence pointing to Moscow’s involvement in the satellite launch, according to Intelligence Committee member Yun Kun-young.

“The NIS said that there was