(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) oul May 08 - Three small drones found near the inter-Korean border in March and April were all sent from North Korea based on an analysis of geographical data retrieved from the spy aircraft South Korea's defense ministry announced Thursday.
One unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was discovered in Paju north of Seoul on March 24 while another was found on a western border island a week later. The third drone was found in a mountain near the east coast on April 6 according to South Korea's (Yonhap) News Agency.
The ministry said a team of South Korean and American experts had confirmed the origin of the drones after restoring the coordinates of the geographical positioning system (GPS) stored in their system.
The announcement came about a month after an interim investigation pointed the finger at Pyongyang for sending the small unmanned aerial vehicles to South Korea based on circumstantial evidence.
North Korea is believed to have made the drones based on Chinese UAVs it had acquired via Hong Kong.
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