North Korea said on Saturday that it has discovered fragments of a crashed South Korean military drone and threatened its neighbor with retaliation. The announcement adds to the already tense atmosphere on the peninsula.
According to Pyongyang’s state-run news agency KCNA, the UAV was likely used to drop leaflets over the capital. Similar drones were spotted scattering leaflets full of “political propaganda and slander” earlier this month, the outlet said.
“If a violation of the DPRK’s territorial ground, air and waters by ROK’s military means is discovered and confirmed again, it will be regarded as a grave military provocation against the sovereignty of the DPRK and a declaration of war and an immediate retaliatory attack will be launched,” KCNA warned.
South Korea has refused to confirm that its drones were flying across the border, however, with Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Colonel Lee Sung-jun telling reporters this week that the matter was “something that should be clarified by North Korea.”
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The North Korean authorities have announced that they discovered evidence of involvement of the South Korean military in incidents with drone flights near Pyongyang for scattering leaflets. A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense of the DPRK has said that the remains of a South Korean crashed drone were discovered.
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The General Staff decided to keep the combined artillery units and the units "with important fire duties near the border" in full combat readiness, the defense ministry’s spokesman added. If a violation of the DPRK's territorial ground, air and waters "by ROK's military means" is discovered and confirmed again, it will be regarded as a grave military provocation against the sovereignty of the DPRK and "a declaration of war" and "an immediate retaliatory attack will be launched," he noted.