Key Highlights
- The drone was equipped with two cameras that filmed unspecified areas, the General Staff of the North’s Korean People’s Army said in a statement carried by state media.
- South Korea infiltrated another drone into North Korean airspace on September 27 before it was forced to crash following electronic strikes by North Korea, the statement said, adding that authorities found the drone also contained video data on major objects in North Korea.
- “We strongly denounce the hooligans’ serial outrageous encroachment upon our sovereignty and undisguised provocative acts against us,” the North Korean statement said.
- “The ROK military warmongers will be surely forced to pay a dear price for their unpardonable hysteria.” The ROK is the abbreviated form of the Republic of Korea, South Korea’s official name.
- South Korea’s Defence Ministry said it did not operate drones during the times specified by North Korea and doesn’t even posses the types of drones that North Korea claimed were used.
