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According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other sources, the South Korean military's local air defence radar detected a drone in North Korean airspace around 10:19 a.m. on the day of the intrusion by a North Korean drone. Furthermore, at around 10:25, the trail of an unmanned aerial vehicle that was moving south and approaching the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) was confirmed.
The South Korean military announced that the North Korean drone was first spotted at 10:25, but the drone was detected by the detector six minutes earlier.
The North Korean unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that violated South Korean airspace is said to be about two meters long, so small that it is indistinguishable from a balloon or a flock of birds on the radar.
On the other hand, the South Korean military did not pay attention when the wake was first detected in North Korean airspace, but it is possible that they began to pay attention to it as they continued to move southward, and that this trail was used by other wakes from the beginning. It has been pointed out that it may not have been possible to distinguish between this and others.
The censorship team is investigating the overall operation, including when the frontline forces and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had captured the drone heading for Seoul earlier, communicated this fact to the Capital Defense Command, which is defending Seoul.
2023/01/11 09:37 KST
