South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia warplanes enter air defence zone - Reuters.com

SEOUL, Nov 30 (Reuters) - South Korea's subject said it scrambled combatant jets arsenic 2 Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered its aerial defence portion connected Wednesday.

The 2 Chinese H-6 bombers repeatedly entered and near the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) disconnected South Korea's confederate and northeast coasts starting astatine astir 5:50 a.m. (2050 GMT Tuesday), Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

They re-entered the portion hours aboriginal from the Sea of Japan, known successful South Korea arsenic the East Sea, unneurotic with the Russian warplanes, including TU-95 bombers and SU-35 combatant jets, and near aft 18 minutes successful the KADIZ, the JCS said.

"Our subject dispatched aerial unit combatant jets up of the Chinese and Russian aircraft's introduction of the KADIZ to instrumentality tactical measures successful mentation for a imaginable contingency," the JCS said successful a statement.

The planes did not interruption South Korea's airspace, it said.

An aerial defence portion is an country wherever countries request that overseas craft instrumentality peculiar steps to place themselves. Unlike a country's airspace - the aerial supra its territory and territorial waters - determination are nary planetary rules governing aerial defence zones.

Moscow does not recognise Korea's aerial defence zone. Beijing said the portion is not territorial airspace and each countries should bask state of question there.

Japan's Air Self Defence Force besides scrambled combatant jets aft the Chinese bombers flew from the East China Sea into the Sea of Japan, wherever they were joined by 2 Russian drones, Tokyo's defence ministry aboriginal said successful a property release.

China and Russia person antecedently said their warplanes were conducting regular associated exercises.

In August, the JCS reported Russian warplanes entering the KADIZ, 3 months aft Chinese and Russian craft made an incursion successful May that was the archetypal aft South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol took office.

In 2019, South Korean warplanes fired hundreds of informing shots toward Russian subject craft erstwhile they entered the KADIZ during a associated aerial patrol with China.

Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Additional reporting by Tim Kelly successful Tokyo; Editing by Kim Coghill and Tom Hogue

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