SEOUL: South Korea’s military has recovered the wreckage of unmanned aircraft, believed to be a North Korean drone, in waters near a disputed maritime border. The aircraft’s light blue wreckage was found 6 kilometres west of Baengnyeong island, and bore similarities to drones that had been found earlier this year, that investigators concluded were launched by North Korea. It had a wingspan of 80 centimetres and was about a metre long, but unlike the earlier drones found it did not have a camera on board, a military official said. South Korean and US officials jointly examined three drones recovered earlier this year from different locations near the border, and concluded they had been used by North Korea to spy on South Korean installations.
IS suspects are China Uighurs: Indonesia
JAKARTA: Indonesian police yesterday said the four foreigners arrested over the weekend suspected of being linked to the Islamic State jihadist group were from China’s ethnic Uighur minority. A day after identifying the four men as Turks, Jakarta police said they had investigated and found that they had entered Indonesia using forged Turkish passports. The elite Detachment 88 police squad had arrested them, along with three Indonesians, after tailing their car on Saturday in the central Sulawesi district of Poso, a known hotbed for militant activity. “It turned out that the four foreigners arrested were Uighurs, after investigation by the anti-terror police,” national police spokesman Ronny Sompie told reporters. “They had used fake passports,” he added. The men had paid $1,000 to a broker in Thailand for each passport and used them to enter Malaysia and Indonesia, Sompie said.
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