South Korea’s Killer Drones: New Frontier in Defense Against North Korea – Part 1

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On December 26, 2022, five North Korean drones violated South Korean airspace, flying around the skies of Seoul, Gimpo in Gyeonggi Province, Paju, and Ganghwa Island. The infiltrating North Korean drones passed through no-fly zones and are highly suspected to have filmed the Presidential Office in Yongsan. Most alarmingly, they roamed the skies over the capital region of South Korea for over five hours without our military’s cognizance.

Two days later, at the National Assembly Intelligence Committee, the National Intelligence Service reported that, concerning the North Korean drones, “We have confirmed through radar investigation that they passed through the northern part of the no-fly zone, and there is a possibility that they filmed the Presidential Office in Yongsan.”

The National Intelligence Service also revealed, “North Korea currently possesses about 500 drones of approximately 20 types, primarily small ones ranging from 1 to 6 meters,” and “we suspect that they have a small number of attack drones, including suicide ones.”

If North Korea had carried out a military provocation and assaulted the Presidential Office with a suicide drone, a military conflict on the Korean Peninsula could have erupted.

The power of so-called suicide drones or killer drones is of tactical weapon grade. Still, their effect can be considered strategic weapon grade since they can covertly eliminate enemy leaders. Especially since the power of attack drones has been confirmed through the Russia-Ukraine war, countries are accelerating the development of killer drones and introducing them as military tactical weapons.

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