North Korean drone reaches north of Seoul - BBC

South Korean subject officials accidental North Korea has flown 5 drones crossed their communal border.

The "unmanned aerial vehicles" violated South Korean airspace successful the borderline areas astir Gyeonggi province, said the country's associated chiefs of staff.

One drone flew each the mode to the bluish borderline of the capital, Seoul, earlier returning crossed the border.

Jets and onslaught helicopters were deployed, but 100 rounds fired from helicopters failed to sprout them down.

A South Korean subject authoritative said they had since mislaid way of each the drones, but that they were nary longer successful flight.

The incursion comes amid accrued tensions connected the Korean peninsula, with the North conducting a grounds fig of rocket tests this year.

The drones were spotted crossing the borderline astatine astir 10:30 section clip (01:30 GMT).

One of the South Korean warplanes progressive successful the operation, a KA-1 airy onslaught aircraft, aboriginal crashed, but its 2 pilots escaped unhurt.

The level fell to the crushed successful Hoengseong County, eastbound of Seoul, soon aft take-off from an aerial basal successful the adjacent metropolis of Wonju, according to the aerial force, quoted by Yonhap.

South Korea besides suspended planes taking disconnected and landing astatine its Incheon and Gimpo airports for astir an hour.

A South Korean subject authoritative described the latest incursion arsenic a wide enactment of provocation by Pyongyang.

"Our subject volition proceed to respond thoroughly and resolutely to North Korea's provocations," the subject added.

In response, the South Korean subject said it besides sent surveillance planes into the North to photograph its subject installations.

The past clip a North Korean drone crossed the borderline was 5 years agone successful June 2017, erstwhile tensions betwixt the 2 Koreas were past astatine their highest.

North Korea's drones airs a menace to South Korea's information arsenic they could beryllium utilized some to spy connected the South and to motorboat an onslaught connected it.

Earlier this month, the North claimed to person performed large tests needed to assistance it make its archetypal spy satellite, which could beryllium utilized to show South Korea. It released an aerial photograph of Seoul, which it said had been taken during the test.

Experts judge South Korea is moving to refine and amended its weapons, portion putting unit connected the United States to easiness sanctions successful immoderate aboriginal negotiations.