According to the South Korean defense ministry, five North Korean drones entered South Korean airspace on Monday (Dec, 26), causing the military to send out fighter jets and assault helicopters.
Though it noted that it couldn’t confirm whether any drones were downed, the ministry said that South Korea’s military had fired shots at the flying objects.
Four of the drones, according to Lee Seung-oh, a South Korean defense official, circled Ganghwa island, and one flew above the northern airspace of Seoul.
During a briefing, Lee stated, “This is a clear provocation and an invasion of our airspace by North Korea.” According to Lee, the South Korean military sent its human and unmanned surveillance assets to the inter-Korean border area in reaction to the airspace violation, with some of them entering North Korean territory.
According to Lee, the equipment carried out a reconnaissance mission, including recording North Korea’s military facilities.
The country’s defense ministry claims that the drones were initially spotted by the South Korean military near the northwest city of Gimpo at about 10:25 local time on Monday.
South Korea’s defense ministry claims that the most recent occasion a North Korean drone was found below the inter-Korean boundary was in 2017. At the time, South Korea claimed to have found a crashed North Korean surveillance drone that had been monitoring a US-made missile system there.
This year, North Korea has aggressively increased the number of missile tests it has conducted, frequently firing several at once. It has launched missiles on 36 different days, which is the most annual launches since Kim Jong Un assumed office in 2012.
South Korean officials reported that North Korea most recently launched two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday. The missiles were launched into the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan from the Sunan region of Pyongyang.
This is how the covert nation typically tests its missiles, shooting them at an angle that causes them to land in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
But in October, it launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) at a regular trajectory that, for the first time in five years, passed over Japan.
It claimed to have fired the Hwasong-17 ICBM, a “new type” of missile that could theoretically reach the continental United States, from Pyongyang International Airfield in November. Additionally, Kim Yo Jong, a senior official in the regime and the sister of Kim Jong Un, stated in state media last week that North Korea was prepared to test-fire an ICBM at a normal trajectory, a flight pattern that might demonstrate the weapons’ ability to target the continental United States.
Experts from the US and South Korea have cautioned that Pyongyang may be getting ready for its first nuclear test in more than five years. Since the third of three meetings between Kim Jong Un and then-US President Donald Trump in 2019 failed to produce a deal, North Korea has been stepping up its actions in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions by developing its nuclear missile weapons.
Kim issued a warning in October that his nuclear forces are completely ready for “actual war.”
According to Kim’s statements, which were quoted by the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency, “our nuclear combat forces… proved again their preparedness for actual war to bring the enemies under their control.”
Source: CNN
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