US air surveillance assets conduct routine reconnaissance flights around the peninsula.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - North Korea accused the United States on Monday of violating its airspace by conducting surveillance flights and warned that, while Pyongyang was exercising restraint, such flights may be shot down.were bringing the Korean peninsula closer to a nuclear conflict, an unnamed spokesperson of North Korea’s Ministry of National Defence said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
The statement cited past incidents of North Korea shooting down or intercepting US aircraft at the border with South Korea and off the coast. North Korea has often complained about US surveillance flights near the peninsula. Miller told a regular news briefing Washington was open to dialogue with North Korea without preconditions but Pyongyang had refused to engage in a meaningful way.
US and South Korean forces have been conducting air and navy drills this year that involved a US aircraft carrier and heavy bombers.
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