North Korea said that the South Korean government lost face because of the recent drone incident without commenting on whether Pyongyang was responsible for the unmanned aircraft.

A North Korean spokesman of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army , in a question-and-answer session with the North's Korean Central News Agency, said that the drone incident had further embarrassed South Korean authorities.

The spokesman also said that the unidentified aircraft flew freely around the Blue House and the  Gyeongbokgung Palace as well as the skies of Baengnyeong Island.

North Korea also said that South Korea and U.S. no longer has the face to criticize the North's missile launches, referring to South Korea's 500-kilometer ballistic missile launch.