SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the highly effective sister of chief Kim Jong Un, mentioned on Tuesday {that a} US army spy airplane entered the nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone eight instances on Monday, state media KCNA reported.
Kim additionally vowed that the US forces will face a “very critical flight” in the event that they proceed what it known as “illegal intrusion.”
Calling the problem “one between the Korean People’s Army and the US forces,” she advised South Korea to chorus from getting concerned in an announcement.
Kim accuses the US Air Force of intruding into the North’s “economic water zone” off the east coast of the Korean peninsula within the sky above the ocean 435 km (270 miles) east of Thongchon of Kangwon Province and 276 km southeast of Uljin of North Gyeongsang Province.
A rustic’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) – which extends 200 nautical miles from the 12 nautical-mile territorial zone across the coast – is a proper to use marine assets inside however doesn’t confer sovereignty over the water’s floor or the airspace above it.
Tuesday’s assertion comes after North Korea accused the U.S. of violating its airspace by conducting surveillance flights and warned such flights could also be shot down. — Reuters
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