The wreckage of a suspected North Korean unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was discovered in the waters west of South Korea’s Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea on Monday. The UAV was recovered on the afternoon of September 15, when a South Korean fisherman discovered its parachute cord entangled in his anchor.  The aircraft, roughly 1-meter-long with an 80-centimeter wingspan, is similar in appearance to another suspected North Korean UAV recovered near Paju, South Korea, in March.

Monday’s discovery marks the latest in several recoveries of suspected North Korean UAVs this year. The recoveries of three separate UAVswere