Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: What Led to the South Korean Drone Incident Linked to North Korea?
Chae Yeon 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 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, on our side. While returning via the airspace over Kaesong City, it was shot down by the electronic countermeasures of the special military technical means of South Korea's Second Corps at around 2:25 p.m. and crashed into a rice paddy in the Sasi-ri area of Jangpung County, Kaesong City / Rodong Sinmun