South Korea finds two crashed drones, suspects North Korea

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http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-south-korea-drones-north-korea-20140404,0,4484004.story



One of the two drones found in South Korea in recent days.

South Korea finds two crashed drones, suspects North Korea
By Steven Borowiec
April 4, 2014, 12:52 p.m.

SEOUL -- South Korean officials were scrambling to explain how two drones, apparently from North Korea, entered the nation’s airspace, took photos of political and military sites and remained unnoticed until they were found crashed on the ground.

One of the unmanned aircraft was found March 24 in the city of Paju, close to the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea. The other was found Monday by a resident of Baengnyeong, a South Korean island in the Yellow Sea across from North Korea.

On the day the second drone was found, South and North Korea exchanged artillery fire after shells fired during a North Korean military drill landed in Yellow Sea waters claimed by the South.

South Korean officials described the drones as small and rudimentary and said they didn’t pose a serious military threat, though technically a chemical or biological weapon could be mounted on them.