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South Korea: North Korean Drone Entered No-Fly Zone over Presidential Office

South Korea: North Korean Drone Entered No-Fly Zone over Presidential Office
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By Staff, Agencies

South Korea announced on Thursday that “A North Korean drone entered the northern end of a 3.7km [2.2 miles] radius no-fly zone around South Korea’s presidential office in Seoul when it intruded into the country’s airspace last month.

“It [the drone] briefly flew into the northern edge of the zone, but it did not come close to key security facilities,” a military official told South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency on Thursday.

The drone was among five North Korean unmanned aerial vehicles that crossed the border and entered South Korean airspace on December 26, prompting South Korea’s military to scramble fighter jets and attack helicopters. The military could not bring down the drones, which flew over South Korean territory for hours.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff had denied that one of the drones intruded into the presidential office no-fly zone, however, on Thursday confirmed that a drone had violated the northern end of the secure area but did not fly directly over the Yongsan area, where the office of President Yoon Suk-yeol is located.

South Korea’s president warned on Wednesday that he would consider suspending a 2018 inter-Korean military pact with Pyongyang if drones violate his country’s airspace again.

 

 

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