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North Korean person Kim Jong Un's almighty sister has demanded a elaborate "explanation" from Seoul implicit a drone it accused South Korea of flying implicit its territory, authorities media reported connected Sunday (January 11, 2026).
The North alleged connected Saturday that the trade crossed from the South Korean borderline region of Ganghwa into the North Korean metropolis of Kaesong successful aboriginal January, and released photos of wreckage from the drone it claimed to person changeable down.
Seoul rejected the allegation, with its Defence Ministry saying the drone was not a exemplary operated by its military.
"Fortunately, the ROK's subject expressed an authoritative basal that it was not done by itself and that it has nary volition to provoke oregon irritate us," Kim Yo Jong said, utilizing South Korea's authoritative sanction successful a connection carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
"But a item [sic] mentation should beryllium made astir the existent lawsuit of a drone that crossed the confederate borderline of our Republic," she said, according to KCNA.
In effect to the North's accusation, Seoul's subject said its ain probe had revealed it does not "possess the unmanned aerial conveyance successful question, nor did it run immoderate unmanned aerial vehicles astatine the clip and day specified by North Korea".
President Lee Jae Myung connected Saturday ordered a "swift and rigorous investigation" by a associated military-police investigative team.
On the anticipation that civilians operated the drone, Mr. Lee said: "If true, it is simply a superior transgression that threatens bid connected the Korean Peninsula and nationalist security."
But Ms. Kim said she did not attraction whether it was a subject oregon civilian drone, saying "that is not the 1 [detail] we privation to know".
"Clear is conscionable the information that the drone from the ROK violated the airspace of our country," she added, according to KCNA.
The caller drone allegation comes arsenic erstwhile President Yoon Suk Yeol is lasting proceedings connected charges that helium illegally ordered drone operations, hoping to provoke a effect from Pyongyang and usage it arsenic a pretext for his short-lived bid to enforce martial law.
Yoon was impeached and removed from bureau successful April past twelvemonth implicit his martial instrumentality attempt.
