SEOUL: South Korea’s defence ministry stated on Friday (Dec 15) it expressed remorse and lodged a protest to China and Russia over the intrusion of its air defence zone by the neighbouring counties’ army plane on Thursday.
The protest was conveyed by the ministry’s head of the worldwide coverage bureau to the army attaches stationed on the Chinese and Russian embassies in Seoul, the ministry stated in an announcement.
“The ministry expressed regret to both countries over the flight close to our airspace over sensitive areas without prior notice,” it stated.
South Korea and Japan scrambled fighter jets when two Chinese and 4 Russian army planes flew over the ocean between the 2 international locations and entered their air defence zones.
The Air Defense Identification Zone is an space the place international locations could unilaterally demand that international plane take particular steps to establish themselves, in line with the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Moscow doesn’t recognise Korea’s air defence zone. Beijing has stated the zone will not be territorial airspace and all international locations ought to get pleasure from freedom of motion there.
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