A Seoul-based North Korean defector NGO sent a drone inside North Korea last month, aimed at testing if the device would be capable of detonating and demolishing statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il inside the country.

The test drone successfully reached the North Korean statues and returned, the NGO told NK News.

“It was our top-secret operation; I have no idea how the North found out it was us,” Park Sang-hak, a defector activist and the representative for the Fighters For Free North Korea (FFNK) told NK News on Wednesday.

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