Anchor: South Korea’s military conducted a thorough probe on a North Korean unmanned aerial vehicle found in hills in Gangwon Province last week. The military discovered in the camera installed on the aircraft images of the THAAD battery in Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province. 
Our Bae Joo-yon has more.
 
Report: The Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS) launched an investigation after it discovered last Friday a North Korean unmanned aerial vehicle in hills in Inje County near the inter-Korean border.
 
The JCS investigators analyzed images stored on a 64 gigabyte memory card of a Sony DSLT(digital single lens translucent) camera that had been installed on the drone and found a dozen images of the THAAD battery in Seongju, located in the southern part of South Korea.
 
The North Korean drone appears to have penetrated the military demarcation line and traveled 270 kilometers southwards to the location where the THAAD battery has been deployed, took pictures and crashed in Inje on its way back to the North.
 
The JCS believes that the images were taken after the end of April when the THAAD X-band radar and two launchers were installed.
 
The memory card held hundreds of images, mostly of houses and forests. Around four percent of the images were of the site where the THAAD launchers have been deployed.
 
The JCS said that though the images are of lower resolution, the location of THAAD launchers can roughly be identified.
 
The drone is similar in form to one found in Baengnyeong Island back in 2014 but has two engines, one more compared to the 2014 aircraft, thus capable of traveling longer distances.
 
The JCS is tracing the path that the drone flew and whether it wirelessly transmitted the images it took.
Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio News.
 
 
 

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