By Hyonhee Shin
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s protection ministry criticized South Korea’s armed forces for sending out drones right into its area for political functions, calling it a violation upon the nation’s sovereignty, state media KCNA claimed on Monday.
The ministry revealed outcomes of its examination after asserting that South Korean drones flew over Pyongyang at the very least 3 times this month to disperse anti-North brochures. KCNA has actually additionally released pictures of what it called a collapsed South Korean armed forces drone.
During an evaluation of the drone’s trip control program, North Korean authorities claimed they discovered greater than 230 trip strategies and trip logs given that June 2023, consisting of a strategy to spread”political motivational rubbish.”
An Oct 8 document revealed that the drone had actually left the South’s boundary island of Baengnyeongdo late in the evening and launched brochures over the international and protection ministry structures in Pyongyang a couple of hours later on.
Seoul’s protection ministry did not instantly have remark yet has actually claimed Pyongyang’s independent insurance claims were “not worth verifying or a response.”
A North Korean representative advised that the nation would certainly react with “merciless offensive” if such a situation repeats, KCNA claimed.
Tensions in between the Koreas have actually revived given that the North started flying balloons lugging garbage right into the South in late May, triggering the South to reactivate speaker publicity programs.
Seoul and Washington have actually claimed North Korea has actually sent out 3,000 soldiers to Russia for feasible implementation in Ukraine, which might indicate a substantial rise in their dispute. Pyongyang claimed on Friday that any kind of relocate to send its soldiers to sustain Russia would certainly remain in line with global legislation.
(Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
