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North Korea's Threats: What Do Recent Drone Incursions Mean for South Korea's Security?

Min Ju Yoo
The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea's Workers' Party, published a statement by the spokesperson of the Korean People's Army General Staff on January 10. It stated that on January 4, the units performing border anti-aircraft surveillance detected and tracked an aerial target moving northward in the airspace over the Hado-ri area of Songhae-myeon, Ganghwa-gun, Incheon. After strategically penetrating 8 km into the airspace, and then attacked it with special electronic weapons, forcing it to crash at a point 1,200 meters from Hill 101.5 in Moksan-ri, Kaepung District, Kaesong City. The photo shows the wreckage of the crashed drone / Rodong Sinmun
The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea's Workers' Party, published a statement by the spokesperson of the Korean People's Army General Staff on January 10. It stated that on January 4, the units performing border anti-aircraft surveillance detected and tracked an aerial target moving northward in the airspace over the Hado-ri area of Songhae-myeon, Ganghwa-gun, Incheon. After strategically penetrating 8 km into the airspace, and then attacked it with special electronic weapons, forcing it to crash at a point 1,200 meters from Hill 101.5 in Moksan-ri, Kaepung District, Kaesong City. The photo shows the wreckage of the crashed drone / Rodong Sinmun

The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea's Workers' Party, published a statement by the spokesperson of the Korean People's Army General Staff on January 10. It reported that an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that took off from the area around Jeokseong-myeon, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, at around 11:15 a.m. on September 27 last year, intruded into the airspace over the area around Pyeongsan-gun, North Hwanghae Province. While returning via the airspace over Kaesong City, it was shot down by the electronic countermeasures of the special military technical means of the Second Corps at around 2:25 p.m. and crashed into a rice field in the Sasi-ri area of Jangpung County, Kaesong City. The photo shows the flight path of the drone that crashed last September / Rodong Sinmun
The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea's Workers' Party, published a statement by the spokesperson of the Korean People's Army General Staff on January 10. It reported that an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that took off from the area around Jeokseong-myeon, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, at around 11:15 a.m. on September 27 last year, intruded into the airspace over the area around Pyeongsan-gun, North Hwanghae Province. While returning via the airspace over Kaesong City, it was shot down by the electronic countermeasures of the special military technical means of the Second Corps at around 2:25 p.m. and crashed into a rice field in the Sasi-ri area of Jangpung County, Kaesong City. The photo shows the flight path of the drone that crashed last September / Rodong Sinmun

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