SEOUL: South Korea’s defence ministry mentioned 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 language and Russian embassies in Seoul, the ministry mentioned in a press release.
“The ministry expressed remorse to each nations over the flight near our airspace over delicate areas with out prior discover,” it mentioned.
South Korea and Japan scrambled fighter jets when two Chinese language and 4 Russian army planes flew over the ocean between the 2 nations and entered their air defence zones.
The Air Protection Identification Zone is an space the place nations might unilaterally demand that overseas plane take particular steps to determine themselves, in line with the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group.
Moscow doesn’t recognise Korea’s air defence zone. Beijing has mentioned the zone shouldn’t be territorial airspace and all nations ought to take pleasure in freedom of motion there.