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Seoul – North Korea has flown 12 warplanes over the border with South Korea. The news agency reports AFP and cites information from the South Korean government in Seoul. The South then put 30 of its own combat aircraft on alert. The sighting of North Korea’s fighter jets came just hours after dictator Kim Jong-un launched two ballistic missiles into the sea off the peninsula.
According to the AFP North Korea’s squadron consisted of eight fighter jets and four bombers. It is assumed that North Korea had carried out various exercises with the aircraft, which included attacks on ground targets from the air. The planes approached South Korean airspace to within a few kilometers. According to a military spokesman, there were no clashes between machines from the north and the south AFP.
It’s not the first time North Korea has flown planes near the border. However, there have never been so many aircraft in action in previous incidents of this type. This is reported by the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
North Korea: Kim Jong-un tests missiles at record level
The maneuvers of the fighter jets are the culmination of a series of provocations from the empire of dictator Kim Jong-un. North Korea launched a missile over Japan earlier this week. In response, the United States had sent an aircraft carrier and numerous escort ships into the straits between the Korean peninsula and Japan. North Korea, in turn, saw this as a provocation and on Thursday morning (CET) fired two more short-range ballistic missiles into the waters east of the country.
For several years, North Korea has been causing tension in the region with missile tests. This year the tests reached a new record. In total, the country has already fired 40 ballistic missiles. Experts fear that Kim Jong-un later this year too conduct nuclear weapons tests. The last attempts of this kind took place in 2017. (dil/afp)
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