Seoul scrambles fighters as North Korean planes fly close to border - Reuters

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SEOUL, Oct 14 (Reuters) - South Korea scrambled combatant jets aft a radical of astir 10 North Korean subject craft flew adjacent to the borderline dividing the 2 countries, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, amid heightened tensions implicit repeated North Korean missiles tests.

The connection said the North Korean craft were detected flying astir 25 km (15 miles) northbound of the Military Demarcation Line successful the cardinal portion of the Korea borderline country and astir 12 km (7 miles) northbound of the Northern Limit Line, a de facto inter-Korean borderline successful the Yellow Sea. The incidental happened betwixt 10:30 p.m. Thursday (1330 GMT) and 0:20 a.m. (1530 GMT) section clip Friday.

North Korea's person Kim Jong Un attends the opening ceremonial of the Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm to people the day of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party, successful North Korea, successful this undated photograph released connected October 11, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo

It said the craft were besides seen adjacent the eastbound portion of the inter-Korean border.

The connection said the South Korean aerial unit "conducted an exigency sortie with its superior aerial force, including the F-35A, and maintained a effect posture, portion carrying retired a proportional effect maneuver corresponding to the formation of a North Korean subject aircraft."