South Korea deploys stealth fighters after spotting 180 North Korean warplanes
After tracking the movement of 180 North Korean jets in a new episode of high tension on the Korean Peninsula, where Seoul and Washington are engaging in joint air exercises that have enraged Pyongyang, the South Korean military announced the deployment of stealth fighters.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of South Korea said that North Korean airplanes were observed flying in a variety of airspaces over the east and west waters of the Korean Peninsula as well as over the northern part of the tactical line of action.
According to the South Korean Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean Air Force has deployed roughly 80 notable fighters, including the F-35A “stealth” Stealth.
Additionally, the 240 warplanes taking part in the “Vigilat Stum” exercises between South Korea and the United States kept their alertness levels up by taking part in the planned exercises.
Yesterday morning, North Korea fired missiles near the disputed maritime border between the two nations off the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula, according to a South Korean official.
About 80 artillery projectiles, also known as East Sea shells, were reportedly fired into the buffer zone in the Sea of Japan late on Thursday, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul.
While on an official visit to South Korea, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier denounced North Korea’s most recent missile tests and demanded that Pyongyang immediately cease its launches.
Following discussions with his South Korean colleague Yoon Suk Yeol in the nation’s capital, Seoul, Steinmeier declared: “Since the beginning of this year, an unprecedented succession of tests has been seen, and Thursday’s missile launches have severely aggravated the situation once again.”
The most recent missile launches by North Korea, according to Steinmeier, “violate UN Security Council resolutions and pose a threat to international security.”
In the meantime, to demonstrate their unity and support for deterrence against North Korea, South Korea, the United States, and Japan discussed having a potential trilateral summit in mid-November on the fringes of multilateral gatherings in Southeast Asia.
US attacks China and Russia after a missile barrage against North Korea.
At the UN Security Council on Friday, the United States criticized China and Russia for “enabling” North Korea, which has conducted a record-breaking flurry of missile launches.
Due to North Korea’s mobilization of aircraft, the largest-ever military exercises between the United States and South Korea—which have been prolonged through Saturday—have enraged Seoul, forcing it to scramble its own stealth airplanes.
Without naming them, US representative Linda Thomas-Greenfield criticized China and Russia for blocking a US-led effort to impose stricter sanctions on North Korea in response to earlier tests in May.
She informed a special Council meeting that the North, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, “had enjoyed blanket protection from two members of this council.”
Thomas-Greenfield urged “unanimity” on implementing sanctions, saying that “these members have gone over backwards to explain the DPRK’s continuous violations and in turn they have aided the DPRK and made a farce of this council.”
She characterized criticism of the military drills as “DPRK propaganda,” asserted that the drills “represent no threat” to other nations, and reaffirmed the willingness of President Joe Biden’s administration to engage in conversation.
In response to indications that North Korea is getting ready to conduct its seventh nuclear test, France’s representative, Nicolas de Riviere, called for further pressure.
He declared that the present escalation was unprecedented and that the latest provocations were intolerable.
The United States was blamed, but China, North Korea’s closest friend, and Russia, whose relations with the West had drastically deteriorated due to its invasion of Ukraine, disagreed.
Zhang Jun, the Chinese ambassador, cited recent military drills between the United States and South Korea as well as a Pentagon strategy document that recently warned that a nuclear strike by North Korea would be the “end” of Kim Jong Un’s dictatorship.
He claimed that recent launches and activities by the DPRK were directly related to the statements and actions of important parties.
The Chinese representative urged the United States to address “the DPRK’s legitimate and reasonable concerns in order to establish the necessary framework for the restart of substantive discussion.”
In a joint statement, the Security Council’s ten non-permanent members—among them, India, Brazil, and Mexico—also denounced the missile launches and urged Pyongyang to stop conducting additional tests.
Without a consensus statement from the whole Security Council, the meeting came to an end.
NOW – South Korea’s Defense Minister: “Any nuclear attack by North Korea will lead to the end of the Kim Jong-un regime. This is a strong warning against the DPRK.” pic.twitter.com/KWjes2ArF9
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