SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- A senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday accused the South Korean military of being the "main culprit" of the drone intrusion into the airspace of Pyongyang, state media reported.
Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), issued a press statement saying the DPRK has "secured clear evidence" showing that the South Korean military is "the main culprit" of the hostile provocation of violating the DPRK sovereignty by intruding into the sky over its capital city of Pyongyang, the DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
"The provocateurs will have to pay a dear price," the senior DPRK official was quoted by the KCNA as saying.
A day earlier, Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and president of the state affairs of the DPRK, convened a consultative meeting on national defense and security in the latest move by the country to address the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the KCNA said in an earlier report on Tuesday.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement last Friday evening, accusing South Korea of sending drones over Pyongyang. South Korea's military denied the accusation on the same day, saying that "it did not send drones into North Korea." ■
