South Korea scrambled fighter jets after 3 Chinese military planes entered air defence zone
South Korean forces scrambled fighter jets to escort three Chinese military planes after they entered an overlapping air defence zone. The Chinese aircraft are reported to have flown into the airspace on Thursday, 18 August near South Korea's island of Jeju without alerting authorities in Seoul. Beijing's aircraft, which included a bomber, quickly left the airspace after South Korean authorities issued a warning and dispatched the fighter jets, a military source told South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The aerial incident has occurred amid tensions between the two countries over the deployment of the sophisticated missile defence system Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) in the Korean ...
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