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It was neither a state-of-the-art fighter jet nor an intercontinental ballistic missile that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad three years ago. It was a strike by an MQ-9 Reaper drone. Although it would take a long time for North Korea to be able to copy anything close to such a high-level operation, South Korea should never underestimate what Pyongyang can - and hopes to do - with drone technology, according to Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the Rand Corporation, a U.S. policy think tank.

It was neither a state-of-the-art fighter jet nor an intercontinental ballistic missile that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad three years ago. It was a strike by an MQ-9 Reaper drone. Although it would take a long time for North Korea to be able to copy anything close to such a high-level operation, South Korea should never underestimate what Pyongyang can ― and hopes to do ― with drone technology, according to Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the Rand Corporation, a U.S. policy think tank.

Residents in the Ukrainian capital were woken by air raid sirens for the fourth time this week, while a missile ripped through a block of flats in Mykolaiv in the south.

The US is working to equip Ukraine with cutting-edge drones that dive-bomb into their targets and can pierce through the armour of tanks.

Nbc's ken de lane yan got a demonstration back in december. >> reporter: amid the quiet beauty of the utah desert, a deadly new kind of weapon on display. nbc news got an exclusive look at a so-called killer drone. it doesn't fire a missile. it is the missile. >> this is about the size of a toy drone i bought my 12-year-old a few years ago. >> reporter: the switchblade can be carried into bat until a backpack and launched miles away from a threat. wauns target is identified the switchblade can find and kill it in minutes. >> launching. >> reporter: the drone's manufacturer showed us how an ope...