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It mobilizes fighter planes to the area and attributes the overflight to military maneuvers in which its airspace was not violated.
MADRID, 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
South Korean authorities reported this Friday that more than a dozen military aircraft from China and Russia have entered their air defense identification zone for several hours, prompting Seoul to send fighter jets to the area. , amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has specified that five Chinese and six Russian aircraft have entered its air defense identification zone on the eastern and southern coasts, before adding that they did so without prior warning, according to the South Korean agency. Yonhap News.
Thus, he has detailed that this situation has extended between 9:35 and 1:53 p.m. (local time), before emphasizing that the Russian and Chinese planes have not violated South Korean airspace, without Moscow or Beijing having commented. for now on the complaints lodged by Seoul.
In this sense, it has stated that it adopted “tactical” measures and mobilized combat aircraft in the face of a possible emergency, while stating that it considers that the overflights are part of joint military maneuvers between China and Russia.
These air defense identification zones, declared unilaterally, are not defined by an international treaty and are part of the efforts of some countries to identify and locate devices from other countries under arguments of national security.
South Korea and other countries in the world have announced the existence of these zones covering parts of their airspace or even beyond, without generating international obligations for the countries whose aircraft fly over them, beyond possible tensions due to the lack of notification. prior, as Seoul requests.