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The South Korean presidential office has responded to opposition allegations that the National Security Council (NSC) ordered the military to send an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into North Korea last year.
Previously, lawmakers from the opposition Democratic Party (DP) claimed that a senior NSC official directly ordered the UAV Combat Command to use this type of vehicle to conduct an infiltration into the North Korean capital Pyongyang in October 2024.
The South Korean presidential office has denied the opposition's accusations, adding that in March 2023, Second Deputy National Security Adviser Yin Sung-hwan visited the UAV Operations Command as part of an official inspection.
Five months later, South Korean UAV operations commander Kim Yong-dae visited the NSC Office to discuss UAV deployment strategies.
The presidential office said opposition lawmakers' linking of the NSC's work to the enhancement of military readiness was aimed at raising tensions with North Korea and was an unjustified political attack. It also called on the opposition Democratic Party to refrain from bringing national security issues into "unnecessary political conflict."
In October 2024, North Korea announced that it had discovered debris from drones carrying anti-North Korean leaflets in the capital Pyongyang. It also accused Seoul of sending the drones and warned of retaliation if such actions continued.
KCNA reported that the leaflets were filled with “seditious rumors and rubbish.” The North Korean Foreign Ministry warned that any violation of Pyongyang’s airspace “could be regarded as a military attack.”
South Korea's defense minister initially denied Pyongyang's accusations, but South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JSC) later said they "cannot confirm whether North Korea's allegations are accurate or not."
So far, the South Korean military has maintained the above stance despite opposition bloc's suspicions that this move is related to President Yoon Suk Yeol's preparations to declare martial law on December 3, 2024.
