As Chinese and Russian warplanes approached South Korea, it raised its fighter jets

An air defense identification zone is an area wider than a country’s airspace where aircraft are attempted to be controlled for security reasons, but this concept is not defined in any international treaty.

Chinese and Russian planes at 11 a.m. 53 min. local time (4 hours 53 minutes in Lithuania) flew into the Korean air defense identification zone in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of ​​Japan, and at 12:00 p.m. 10 minutes local time (5:10 a.m. Lithuanian time) departed from it, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported.

However, according to the committee, the airspace was not invaded. The South Korean military identified the planes before they flew into the air defense identification zone and deployed air force fighter jets in preparation for tactical contingency measures.

China and Russia are North Korea’s traditional allies, and Washington warned last month that military ties between Pyongyang and Moscow were growing and dangerous.

The United States has urged Beijing, which is North Korea’s biggest economic backer, to rein in Pyongyang.

Last month, nuclear-armed North Korea launched a military intelligence satellite into orbit, which Seoul said the isolated country did with Moscow’s help in exchange for weapons to be used in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The launch of the satellite derailed a military agreement between the two Koreas to ease tensions on the peninsula. The two countries have also stepped up security along the demilitarized zone that separates them.

In June, South Korea deployed fighter jets in response to Chinese and Russian warplanes near its airspace as the two countries conducted joint air force patrols over the Seas of Japan and the East China Sea.

In November last year, military planes from Moscow and Beijing also flew into South Korea’s air defense identification zone, forcing Seoul to send its fighter jets. At that time, none of the Russian and Chinese planes also violated South Korean airspace.