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South Korea scrambles 30 fighter jets after Kim Jong-un sends 12 warplanes close to border for bombing drills - hours after ballistic missile tests
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • South Korea scrambled 30 fighter jets along with other war planes today

  • It was in response to twelve North Korean fighter jets and four bombers

  • The North Korean warplanes were flown close to the South Korean border

  • This came after Kim Jong-un fired two more ballistic missiles towards Japan

  • These missile tests were the sixth round conducted in the last two weeks
Many experts believe Kim's goal is to eventually win US recognition as a legitimate nuclear state and the lifting of said sanctions, though the international community to date has shown no sign of allowing that to happen.

Thursday's missiles were launched 22 minutes apart from the North's capital region and landed between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

The first missile flew 350 kilometres (217 miles) and reached a maximum altitude of 80 kilometres (50 miles) and the second flew 800 kilometres (497 miles) on an apogee of 60 kilometres (37 miles).

The flight details were similar to Japanese assessments announced by DMinister of Defense of Japan Yasukazu Hamada, who confirmed that the missiles didn't reach Japan's exclusive economic zone.
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-10-07
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