North Korea's drones intrude airspace, South Korea fires 100 shots in response: Military

Five North Korean drones crossed into South Korean airspace on Monday and South Korea responded by scrambling jets and attack helicopters and opening fire to try to shoot down the North Korean aircraft, according to the South Korean military.

South Korea tracked the North Korean drones as they crossed what is known as the Military Demarcation Line between the two countries, after detecting them in the skies over the western city of Gimpo at around 10:25 a.m. local time, the military said.

The border intrusion by North Korean drones is a “clear act of provocation,” an official from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Lee Seung-O said. He did not say if any drones had been shot down, but the Yonhap news agency later said South Korea's military fired about 100 shots but failed to shoot any down. As part of its response, the South Korea military also sent surveillance aircraft into the North to photograph its military installations, Lee added.

South Korea's transport ministry said earlier that flights departing from its Incheon and Gimpo airports were suspended for about an hour following a request from the military. While scrambling to counter the drones, a defence ministry official said a South Korean KA-1 light attack aircraft crashed shortly after departing its Wonju base in the country's east but that its two pilots were able to escape before the crash and are in the hospital.

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