A recently introduced North Korean Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), claimed to be “developed” by North Korea, may be a reproduction of a record holding Western-made drone.

While a North Korean news anchor from state-run KCTV announced last week that the drone was “self-produced” and “localized,” a long-time North Korean military watcher said it might be a replica of the Aerosonde Mark I, a drone first produced by a Melbourne, Australia-based institute.

“It is possible that the Aerosonde Mark I was somehow smuggled into North Korea,” Choi Hyun-ho, director of Milidom.net, told NK News after being showing a comparison of the two models.

“But the model