Koreas Speed Up Drone Race After Unprecedented Incursions
- South Korea approves plans for a new military UAV command
- North Korea testing a new large-scale drone, NK News says
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As the two Koreas near the anniversary of the start of their conflict in 1950, both sides are pouring money into drone programs to bolster their militaries along a border dubbed “the Cold War’s last frontier.”
South Korea’s cabinet this week approved plans for a new drone command to be set up by the military around September to provide what the government called an “overwhelming response” to any provocations by North Korea’s unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs.