SEOUL (Reuters) -South&nbsp;Korea's&nbsp;President&nbsp;Yoon&nbsp;Suk-yeol&nbsp;ordered&nbsp;a&nbsp;revamp&nbsp;of the&nbsp;military's&nbsp;response&nbsp;to&nbsp;objects&nbsp;violating&nbsp;its&nbsp;airspace,&nbsp;his&nbsp;office&nbsp;said&nbsp;on&nbsp;Thursday,&nbsp;after&nbsp;an&nbsp;intrusion&nbsp;by&nbsp;North&nbsp;Korean&nbsp;drones&nbsp;exposed&nbsp;its&nbsp;difficulty&nbsp;in&nbsp;shooting&nbsp;down&nbsp;small&nbsp;aircraft.
Five&nbsp;North&nbsp;Korean&nbsp;drones&nbsp;crossed into&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea on Monday, prompting&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea's&nbsp;military to scramble fighter jets and attack helicopters, though it failed to bring&nbsp;down&nbsp;the&nbsp;drones, which flew over&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea for hours.
Amid criticism over&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea's&nbsp;air defences at a time of&nbsp;North&nbsp;Korea's&nbsp;growing nuclear and missile threats,&nbsp;Yoon&nbsp;visited the state-run Agency for Defence Development to check the country's reconnaissance and interception capabilities and called for an overhaul of the&nbsp;response&nbsp;system against "all flying&nbsp;objects".
"North&nbsp;Korean&nbsp;drones'&nbsp;intrusion&nbsp;of our&nbsp;airspace&nbsp;is an intolerable incident,"&nbsp;Yoon&nbsp;said. "We should let them learn that provocations are always met by harsh consequences."
Yoon&nbsp;has slammed the&nbsp;military's&nbsp;handling of Monday's incursion, the first since 2017, urging it to hasten the reinforcement of drone units.
The military apologised for&nbsp;its&nbsp;response, and&nbsp;said&nbsp;it could not shoot&nbsp;down&nbsp;the&nbsp;drones&nbsp;because they were too&nbsp;small.
"To secure peace, we need to prepare for a war with overwhelming capabilities," the&nbsp;president&nbsp;said, adding that the&nbsp;South's defence procurement strategy should also be reviewed in line with the&nbsp;North's weapons advances.
On&nbsp;Thursday, the&nbsp;South's Joint Chiefs of Staff&nbsp;said&nbsp;the country's military would hold drone-focused exercises.
"Our military will conduct joint air defence drills ... simulating&nbsp;response&nbsp;to enemy's&nbsp;small-sized unmanned&nbsp;aircraft," a JCS spokesperson told a regular briefing.
(Reporting by Choonsik Yoo and Soo-hyang Choi; Editing by Tom Hogue and Gerry Doyle)

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S.Korea's Yoon orders revamp of response to violations of country's air space