South Korea suspended some commercial flights and scrambled military assets to shoot at drones from North Korea that crossed their heavily armed border Monday.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military detected multiple “unidentified objects” in the country’s airspace presumed to be unmanned aerial vehicles crossing the border from 10:25 a.m. in Gyeonggi province, which encircles Seoul.
It dispatched fighter jets and military helicopters that fired warning shots toward the objects, JCS said, without saying whether any of the drones had been shot down. The drones flew near Seoul after passing civilian residences and South Korea tried to shoot the aerial vehicles down, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing a government source.
