SEOUL — In the latest ripple to spread outward from North Korea’s drone intrusion into South Korea’s air space last week, it was revealed today that the South Korean capital’s most sensitive airspace had been violated.
Presidential and defence officials separately admitted today that one of the five drones which penetrated South Korean airspace on December 26 flew through the 2.2 mile-radius air security zone surrounding the South Korean presidential office at Yongsan. Previously, officials had only said that a drone had hovered over northern Seoul.
And it gets worse.
In May, newly-elected President Yoon Suk Yeol relocated the presidential offices from the traditional Blue House to the Ministry of National Defense compound adjacent to the vast Yongsan Garrison in east-central Seoul.