North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister has demanded a detailed “explanation” from Seoul over a drone it accused South Korea of flying over its territory, state media reported Sunday.
The North alleged on Saturday that a craft crossed from the South Korean border county of Ganghwa into the North Korean city of Kaesong in early January, and released photos of wreckage from the drone it claimed to have shot down.
Seoul rejected the claim, with its Defense Ministry saying the drone was not a model operated by its military.
“Fortunately, the ROK’s military expressed an official stand that it was not done by itself and that it has no intention to provoke or irritate us,” Kim Yo Jong said, using South Korea’s official name in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
“But a detail [sic] explanation should be made about the actual case of a drone that crossed the southern border of our Republic,” she said, according to KCNA. (AFP)
