South Korea accused the North of flying several drones across their shared border, prompting Seoul’s military to deploy warplanes to shoot them down — with local media reporting one of the planes later crashed. | AFP
The incursion prompted Seoul to fire warning shots and deploy fighter jets and attack helicopters to shoot down the five drones, one of which reached airspace near the capital.
The South Korean military also deployed its own manned and unmanned reconnaissance assets to areas near and north of the Military Demarcation Line for “corresponding measures.” Flights were temporarily suspended at Gimpo and Incheon international airports — the country’s two major hubs — for about an hour at the request of the JCS, according to Yonhap, which cited an official from South Korea’s transport ministry.Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said the incident marked the first time that South Korean flights were suspended over “the appearance of North Korean drones”, adding they were likely for spying purposes.
Last week, Pyongyang also fired two short-range ballistic missiles and claimed to have developed new capabilities to take images from space, saying it would be ready to launch a reconnaissance satellite by April next year.
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