SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea mentioned on Saturday it had found the stays of a crashed South Korean army drone, suggesting it was on a propaganda mission within the newest confrontation between the 2 involving cross-border flying objects.
“In light of the drone’s shape, the presumptive period of flight, the leaflet-scattering box fixed to the underpart of the drone’s fuselage, etc., it is quite likely that the drone is the one which scattered leaflets over the center of Pyongyang Municipality. But the conclusion has not yet been drawn,” mentioned state information company KCNA.
South Korea’s authorities has declined to say if such drones had been flown and in the event that they had been, whether or not they had been flown by its army or civilians. It mentioned to touch upon the North’s declare can be to get drawn right into a ploy.
“If a violation of the DPRK’s territorial ground, air and waters by ROK’s military means is discovered and confirmed again, it will be regarded as a grave military provocation against the sovereignty of the DPRK and a declaration of war and an immediate retaliatory attack will be launched,” KCNA added.
DPRK is brief for the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea, North Korea’s official title, and ROK stands for Republic of Korea, the South’s formal title.
“North Korea’s one-sided claims are not worth verifying, nor do they merit a response,” South Korea’s defence ministry mentioned in an announcement.
Tensions between the Koreas have escalated because the North started flying balloons carrying trash throughout the border to the South in late Might, with Seoul responding by restarting loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts, which anger Pyongyang.
North Korea has intensified its hostile rhetoric in current days, accusing the South’s army of flying drones over its capital on three days this month and threatening “a horrible disaster” if it detects one other drone over its skies.
