The two sides have let each other know they intend to step up their drone programmes. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL – As the two Koreas near the anniversary of the start of their conflict in 1950, both sides are pouring money into drone programmes to bolster their militaries along a border dubbed “the Cold War’s last frontier”.
The aircraft was the largest it has seen to date, with an estimated wingspan of about 35m, bigger than the 20m drone spotted at the airbase earlier this month, it said. “Drones are currently hitting that spot of being threatening and menacing without yet creating full-blown, open hostilities that could have broader geopolitical ramifications,” said Mr Beryl Pong, a faculty member at the University of Cambridge and the National University of Singapore specialising in contemporary warfare.
The US Defense Intelligence Agency said in its most recent report on North Korea’s military power that Mr Kim’s regime has been flying drones near the border based on Chinese commercial designs and using Chinese components. Mr Dempsey said there are questions over whether North Korea has long-range electro-optical sensors to allow for reconnaissance across the border. The greater concern is that North Korea might try to develop its smaller drones into one-way weapons, which could provide a cheaper alternative to cruise missiles, he said.about the threat when Mr Kim’s regime sent five drones across the border in late December, including one that flew near the Presidential Office in Seoul.
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