North Korea Drone Incident: What You Need to Know About the Civilian Trial and Its Implications
Soo Yeon Yoo
On April 10, the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea’s Workers’ Party, published a statement by a spokesperson for the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army, reporting that an enemy drone that took off from the Jikseong-myeon area of Paju City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, at around 11:15 a.m. on September 27 of last year, had intruded into the airspace over the Pyeongsan County area of North Hwanghae Province on our side. While returning via the airspace over Kaesong City, the drone was brought down by electronic warfare, and crashed into a rice paddy in Sasi-ri, Jangpung-gun, Kaesong, at around 2:25 p.m. / Rodong Sinmun