{"id":13584,"date":"2014-04-02T04:09:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/seoul-examines-north-korea-drone\/"},"modified":"2014-04-02T04:08:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T04:08:56","slug":"seoul-examines-north-korea-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/seoul-examines-north-korea-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Examines ‘North Korea Drone’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{South Korea says it is analysing what it believes to be a North Korean drone that crashed on a border island shortly after an exchange of artillery fire with North Korea.}}<\/p>\n

The drone crashed on Baengnyeong island on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

It fell as the two Koreas traded fire into each other’s waters in an incident Seoul says was provoked by the North.<\/p>\n

South Korean authorities say a preliminary investigation has concluded that the drone came from the North.<\/p>\n

“The relevant departments of the South Korean government have confirmed that North Korea is responsible for it,” said South Korea’s Unification Ministry spokesman Park Soo-jin.<\/p>\n

A similar drone was found in Paju, just south of the demilitarised zone that separates the two Koreas, on 24 March, Yonhap news agency reported.<\/p>\n

It was equipped with a a high-resolution camera and had taken pictures of military installations and South Korea’s presidential compound, the agency said.<\/p>\n

The two Koreas were divided at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty. They remain technically at war and the border is heavily fortified.<\/p>\n

Monday’s clash came after North Korea announced it would hold live-fire exercises in seven parts of the disputed western maritime border – a major flashpoint between the two nations.<\/p>\n

South Korea says it returned fire after North Korean shells landed in its territorial waters. Hundreds of shells were fired, but all fell in the sea and nobody was hurt.<\/p>\n

The exchange of fire happened days after North Korea tested medium-range missiles for the first time since 2009.<\/p>\n

North Korea is the subject of multiple UN resolutions relating to its pursuit of nuclear weapons’ development.<\/p>\n

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