SEOUL – South Korea summoned a Chinese embassy official on Friday to lodge a complaint over a Chinese military aircraft flying in the South&…
SEOUL – South Korea summoned a Chinese embassy official on Friday to lodge a complaint over a Chinese military aircraft flying in the South's air defense territory, the third such incident this year, the defense ministry said. South Korea scrambled fighter jets to intercept a Chinese plane when it entered the Korea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement. The aircraft spent more than four hours flying near a submerged rock in the area controlled by Seoul but claimed by Beijing, the JCS said. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters in Beijing he was unaware of the issue and referred questions to China's Defense Ministry, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. South Korea's Defense Ministry said it called in Du Nong Yi, a defense attaché at the Chinese embassy in Seoul, and "sternly" urged China to take steps to prevent the incident from recurring.
