South Korea has neither confirmed nor denied North Korea’s allegations that an ROK military drone scattered anti-regime leaflets over Pyongyang several times this month, but some experts have backed a lawmaker’s claim that the DPRK may have faked the apparent infiltration amid escalating inter-Korean tensions.

North Korea’s ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun published photos over the weekend of what it claimed to be the South Korean “long-range reconnaissance” drone discovered in Pyongyang, with the images appearing to show an S-BAT unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that Seoul has displayed at military parades.

At a press briefingon Monday, a spokesperson for