A drone that North Korea claims is a drone despatched by South Korea, Sept. 27, 2025, is seen on this picture, carried by North Korea’s official Korean Central Information Company, Saturday, . Yonhap
South Korea’s protection chief on Saturday denied North Korea’s claims that its drones infiltrated into the North in September final 12 months and earlier this week, saying the drones in query weren’t fashions operated by the South Korean navy.
North Korea claimed earlier within the day that South Korea infringed on its sovereignty with drone incursions, saying that Seoul must be able to “pay a excessive value” for what it known as a provocation.
In response to an inquiry by Yonhap Information Company, Protection Minister Ahn Gyu-back mentioned the North’s alleged claims have been “completely not true,” noting the pictures of the drones launched by the North weren’t of fashions owned by the South Korean navy.
“How may that be potential when the nightmare of martial legislation nonetheless feels prefer it was simply yesterday?” Ahn mentioned, including the drone operation command, the Military’s floor operations command and the Marine Corps headquarters had not performed flight operations on the dates claimed by North Korea.
Ahn additionally urged the matter might be collectively investigated by South and North Korea.
In an announcement issued by the spokesperson of the Normal Workers of the Korean Individuals’s Military, North Korea claimed South Korea’s drones had infiltrated into the North on two events, whereas denouncing Seoul as “essentially the most hostile” enemy.
This composite picture, carried by North Korea’s official Korean Central Information Company on Saturday, reveals particles of drones that North Korea claimed have been despatched by South Korea throughout the border. Yonhap
On Jan. 4, North Korea’s navy captured and tracked an air goal shifting northward from the sky over South Korea’s Ganghwa County, Incheon, and struck the drone with particular digital warfare property, forcing it to fall in Muksan-ri close to the North’s border metropolis of Kaesong, based on the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA).
It additionally claimed that on Sept. 27, a drone, which took off from the South’s border metropolis of Paju, fell into Jangphung County, Kaesong, after being struck down by the North’s digital means. The drone was returning after infiltrating the sky above Phyongsan County, North Hwanghae Province.
The protection ministry mentioned President Lee Jae Myung had ordered a “thorough” investigation into the matter, with related companies verifying the main points of the case.
“Preliminary findings confirmed that the South Korean navy doesn’t possess the drone in query, nor did it function any drones on the dates claimed by North Korea,” the ministry mentioned, including it plans to look into the likelihood that civilians have been behind the drone infiltrations.
Kim Hong-cheol, deputy minister for nationwide defence coverage, speaks throughout a press briefing on the protection ministry in Seoul, Saturday. Yonhap
“We’ve got no intention of scary North Korea and can proceed to take sensible steps and make efforts to ease inter-Korean tensions and construct belief,” Kim Hong-cheol, the deputy protection minister for nationwide protection coverage, mentioned in a televised briefing.
South Korea’s navy additionally mentioned it didn’t detect any drones that crossed into North Korea on the dates of the purported flights.
A navy official, nonetheless, famous difficulties in monitoring radar signatures flying into the North from South Korea, as surveillance operations are centered on monitoring incoming North Korean drones.
In the meantime, the unification ministry accountable for inter-Korean affairs mentioned it convened a gathering to debate response measures to North Korea’s assertion, vowing to make efforts to ease tensions and foster belief between the Koreas.
