{"id":26378,"date":"2026-01-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/?p=26378"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:44:34","slug":"a-dispute-over-drones-between-north-korea-and-south-korea-could-threaten-one-of-asias-last-natural-refuges-where-bears-deer-and-cranes-survive-amid-mines-and-barbed-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/a-dispute-over-drones-between-north-korea-and-south-korea-could-threaten-one-of-asias-last-natural-refuges-where-bears-deer-and-cranes-survive-amid-mines-and-barbed-wire\/26378\/","title":{"rendered":"A dispute over drones between North Korea and South Korea could threaten one of Asia’s last natural refuges, where bears, deer, and cranes survive amid mines and barbed wire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the most heavily militarized borders on Earth is also one of Asia\u2019s most surprising wildlife havens. That is why a new quarrel over drones between North and South Korea<\/a> is not only a security story. It is an environmental one too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement carried by state media, Kim Yo Jong<\/a>, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, urged Seoul to investigate recent drone flights that Pyongyang says crossed from South Korea into its airspace. She said she appreciated South Korea\u2019s declaration that it had no intention to provoke, yet insisted that authorities \u201ccan never evade their responsibility\u201d even if a civilian pilot was involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Korea\u2019s Office of National Security<\/a> has promised a swift investigation and repeated that the government does not seek confrontation. Investigators have already questioned at least one civilian over alleged unauthorized drone flights toward the North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A political dispute over a living buffer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to North Korean and South Korean accounts, small drones entered the North twice in recent months, once in September and again in early January. Pyongyang says it intercepted the devices and treats the flights as a \u201cgrave violation\u201d of sovereignty. Seoul\u2019s military denies any role and says the aircraft resemble consumer models, not equipment used by its forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On paper this sounds like a narrow legal issue. Who flew what, and where exactly did it cross an invisible line on the map? In practice that line runs across the Korean Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ<\/a>, a 250-kilometer-long strip roughly four kilometers wide that has been off limits to most people since 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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