By Franz-Stefan Gady
Amidst last month’s tensions, Pyongyang repeatedly dispatched an UAV to observe South Korean troop movements.
During the recent August crisis on the Korean Peninsula, a North Korean surveillance drone crossed the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and flew several times over a South Korean military outpost without being intercepted, the Republic of Korea (ROK) Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) revealed, according to Yonhap News.
The flights, above a military compound and along the central part of the four-kilometer-wide DMZ, took place from August 22 to 24. South Korean radar detected the first flight on August 22 at 11: 59 am and another flight at 6 pm “30 minutes before high-level talks began on Saturday at the truce village of Panmunjom,” UPI reports. An unknown number of flights occurred on the following two days.
The JCS said that the incursion was detected by the South Korean military on its low-altitude surveillance radar as well as on another surveillance system, and that attempts were made to intercept the UAV.
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