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North Korea has reiterated that the South Korean military flew a drone that was found in its capital Pyongyang earlier this month, claiming that the enemy drone took off at South Korea’s Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea.
In a statement carried by the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) on Monday, the defense ministry released the previous day the final results of investigation into the infringement upon the North’s sovereignty, which confirmed the take-off point and route and purpose of intrusion by the drone.
A ministry spokesperson reportedly said that the drone of the South Korean “military gangsters” took off at Baengnyeong Island at 11:25 p.m. on October 8 and intruded into the North Korean airspace.
The spokesperson said that the drone flied over Jangyon in South Hwanghae Province, the waters around the Cho Islet and Namjoap Islet and over Chollima District in Nampho before intruding into the capital city.
The statement added that the drone then scattered propaganda leaflets over the building of the North’s foreign ministry and a subway station in Pyongyang and the building of the defense ministry at around 1:30 a.m. on October 9.
The North claimed that the collected evidence data include 238 flight plans and flight logs worked out between June 5 and October 8 and all the data except those for October 8 were the data of flight in the South Korean territory.