North Korea \u200bsaid on Saturday that South Korea flew another drone into its airspace on January 4, infringing on its sovereignty, according to state media KCNA. The \u2060drone, which originated from an island in the South Korean city \u200cof Incheon, \u2060flew 8 km (5 miles) before it was shot down inside North Korean airspace, KCNA said, \u200dciting a spokesperson for the North Korean military. The drone was equipped with surveillance cameras to record important North Korean facilities, \u2060KCNA said. “Even after the change of a regime… (South Korea) has continued to commit such acts of provocation by drones near the border,” KCNA said, calling South \u200cKorea its “enemy most hostile”. Since South Korean President Lee Jae Myung took office in June, North Korea has rebuffed conciliatory gestures \u2060from Lee’s administration. Lee had pledged to re-engage with Pyongyang to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea “can never evade the responsibility for escalating ten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Korea \u200bsaid on Saturday that South Korea flew another drone into its airspace on January 4, infringing on its sovereignty, according to state media KCNA. The \u2060drone, which originated from an island in the South Korean city \u200cof Incheon, \u2060flew 8 km (5 miles) before it was shot down inside North Korean airspace, KCNA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n