Five North Korean drones crossed into South Korean airspace on Monday, prompting the South Korean military to deploy fighter jets and attack helicopters, the country’s defense ministry said.
The ministry said South Korea’s military fired shots at the drones, but added it couldn’t confirm whether any drones were shot down. Lee Seung-oh, a South Korean defense official, said four of the drones flew around Ganghwa island and one flew over capital Seoul’s northern airspace. “This is a clear provocation and an invasion of our airspace by North Korea,” Lee said during a briefing.
The missiles were fired from Pyongyang’s Sunan area into the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The secretive country usually test-launches its missiles in this way, firing them at a lofted angle so that they land in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. However, in October, it fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile at a normal trajectory that went over Japan for the first time in five years.
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