‘Seoul will pay a heavy price’: Kim Jong Un warns South Korea over drone attack Tensions are surging on the Korean Peninsula after North Korea accused South Korea of violating its airspace by sending a surveillance drone deep into DPRK territory. Pyongyang claims it shot down the drone, recovered flight data and devices, and released footage of the wreckage, warning that Seoul continues hostile provocations even after a change in leadership. South Korea has strongly denied the charge, ordered an

Inter-Korean relations gradually worsened under the presidency of former South Korean leader Yoon Suk-yeol. But overtures towards North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by Yoon’s successor, President Lee Jae Myung, have so far gone unanswered. | South China Morning Post