South Korea recovers suspected North Korean drone on Baengnyeong island
South Korea said it had recovered an unidentified drone that crashed on one of its border islands the same day that North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire across their disputed maritime boundary.
South Korea said yesterday it had recovered an unidentified drone that crashed on one of its border islands the same day that North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire across their disputed maritime boundary.
The wreckage was discovered on Baengnyeong island, which lies just south of the maritime border, fuelling suspicions that it might be North Korean.
"Military authorities retrieved the wreckage for analysis," a defence ministry spokesman said.
He declined to speculate on the drone's provenance, but the Yonhap news agency said military and intelligence officials suspected the drone came from North Korea.
Yonhap quoted a military source as saying the drone crashed less than an hour after North Korea wrapped up a major live fire drill along the border.
During the exercise, the North fired about 500 rounds of artillery shells, 100 of which fell into South Korean waters. The South responded by firing 300 shells into the sea on the North Korean side of the border and scrambling fighter jets.
