CNN :
North Korea has slammed a South Korean investigation that found that Pyongyang had flown small drones over the border to take photos of strategic sites.
The South Korean findings, released last week, are a “charade for confrontation,” the North’s Korean People’s Army said in a statement reported by state media Monday.
The statement suggested that the South Korean government was “floating the fiction” about the drones’ origin “in a foolish bid” to divert public attention away from the Sewol ferry disaster.
Officials in Seoul say the three tiny unmanned aircraft were found in March and April on the ground in South Korean territory near the heavily militarized border with the North.
Analysis of the drones turned up a “smoking gun” that all three had been sent by North Korea and were set up to return there, the South Korean Defense Ministry said last week.
The small, single-engine propeller planes carried Japanese-made digital cameras and looked as though they could have come from a hobby shop.
