North Korea says the drone that entered the country left from a South Korean island across the border

MADRID 28 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

North Korean authorities stated this Monday that the drone that entered the country at the beginning of October left from the island of Paekryong, located southwest of the Military Demarcation Line that serves as the ‘de facto’ border between the two Koreas. .

After a series of investigations, Pyongyang has indicated that the “reckless” launch of this drone was intended to “spread garbage against North Korea” and has defended that the main “hostile offender” is “South Korea and its military gangsters.” , whom he considers “puppets.”

“It has been proven that the drone was deployed on Paekryong Island at 11:25 p.m. (local time) on October 8 and broke into North Korean territorial air shortly after, where it flew over Jangyon County, Hwanghae Province. South and the waters around Cho Islet. It then moved to Namjoap Islet before flying over the Chollima district, Nampho Municipality, and entering the capital, Pyongyang,” the North Korean Ministry of Defense explained.

Thus, the authorities have stressed once again that South Korea has been warned of the danger posed by these actions, especially given the current atmosphere of tension between both countries.

Pyongyang has denounced that this is a violation of its sovereignty while pointing out that the official investigation points to the “most serious case of violation” of the country’s airspace by Seoul, according to information collected by the North Korean news agency KCNA. .

The Ministry of Security has explained that the flight control module of the unmanned aerial vehicle has been completely dismantled after it crashed. In addition, he has analyzed the flight plan exhaustively.

In this sense, Kim Yo Jong, deputy director of the department of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, has accused South Korea of ​​being a “rogue rival with a bad habit of challenging” the regime. “It is the source of all misfortunes,” he said.

The device, he claims, contained equipment installed by the Drone Operation Command of the South Korean Army and, judging by the remaining fuel, it could have been used up to a week before its presumed accident.

However, North Korea has been launching thousands of garbage balloons into South Korea since last May, in a tactic it has described as a ‘quid pro quo’ in response to the launching of leaflets by North Korean activists and defectors. on the other side of the border.