No Sign Of Reported North Korea Spy Plane

US-North Korean tensions mounted -- and currency exchange markets reacted -- to unsubstantiated reports of a US military plane crash in North Korea on Thursday. Some 3,100 miles to the west, however, there was tangible evidence that a reconnaissance drone crashed in Afghanistan -- including a hole in the side of a house.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports the seven-foot drone that plowed into a home in the southeastern Afghani village of Aliwot likely belonged to the US-led coalition, especially since a team of coalition soldiers showed up on Saturday to pick it up.

Provincial police spokesman Mohammad Haroon said the incident caused no casualties, but added, "We don't know for what purpose it was used."

"Villagers were scared to go close to it," said an Aliwot villager, "Today Americans came and took it with them."

AFP said the coalition could not immediately confirm the accident.

As for the spy plane North Korea reported had gone down in that country... so far, Pyongyang hasn't turned up the plane -- and spokesmen for US forces in Korea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of staff, and Japan's defense ministry have denied any crash ever occurred.

FMI: www.defenselink.mil