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SCMP/Reuters: South Korea says it scrambled military jets to intercept Chinese spy plane
Seoul lodged a complaint over another incursion less than two months ago
South Korea said on Saturday it had scrambled military jets to intercept a Chinese aircraft that had entered the South’s air defence territory, less than two months after Seoul officially lodged a complaint over another incursion.
The Chinese aircraft was believed to be a military reconnaissance plane and spent nearly four hours in the Korea air defence identification zone, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
It would be at least the third such incident this year. South Korea summoned the Chinese ambassador in February to formally complain.
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Update #1: Korean jets chase off China spy plane during historic Peace Summit -- Taiwan News
Update #2: S. Korea summons Chinese diplomats over violation of air defense zone -- Yonhap News Agency
WNU Editor: At least the Chinese are not openly threatening South Korea as they are threatening Taiwan .... China renews military threat against Taiwan as independence push grows (The Telegraph).
If the Chinese leaders would go full irredentist, they would annex North Korea. No time in the last 2 millenia has China ever conquered Southern Korea. They tried and the a Turkish warlord almost ended the Tang dynasty.
ReplyDeleteChina wants North Korea to not be a headache anymore? Maybe. But they still want countries like South Korea to be kept off balance and never gain their footing. A strong unified Korea is not in the Chinese best interest.
not so long as 30 thousand Am troops there, and we will not leave, nor leave Japan, which has another 36 thousand troops
ReplyDeleteMr Lapides,
ReplyDeleteI simply stated wanted Chinese oligarchs and misguided nationalists wanted.
You could look up An LuShan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion
Then you could look one of those websites that rank the death toll of various wars taking normalized for world population.
The Tang emperor was fixated with taking over Korea and then the Middle Kingdom came apart.