North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Tuesday South Korea's hope for an improvement in relations is an illusion that cannot be realised, state media KCNA reported. The leader's powerful sister,

Seoul has denied any involvement in the recent incursion but has left open the possibility that civilians may have flown the drone, a position reiterated by its national security adviser.

South Korea also has accused North Korea of occasionally flying drones over South Korea. In December 2022, South Korea announced it fired warning shots, scrambled fighter jets and flew surveillance drones over North Korea in response to what it called North Korea’s first drone flights across the border in five years.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung departed Seoul on Tuesday for a two-day visit to Japan, where he is scheduled to hold a bilateral summit with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Removed from office in April, Yoon faces criminal trials over his martial law debacle, including charges that he directed a rebellion.

An icebreaker owned by the state-run Korea Water Resources Corp. sails through ice in the Seoul-Incheon Canal in the city of Incheon, west of Seoul, on Jan. 14, 2026, to make a path amid a cold wave.

A notice about Asiana Airlines’ relocation to Terminal 2 is displayed at Incheon International Airport’s Terminal 1 on Jan. 13.