10 minutes agoUnited States and South Korea headed for the Korean Peninsula, but China releases its fighter planes
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The US and South Korean Air Force left on Monday in the Korean Peninsula, but it appears China's Liberation Army air force has also been conducting military exercises in that region sending a message to South Korea and the US. Chinese Air Force training has involved aircraft [...]
Chinese Air Force training has included multiple flying planes in “roads and areas that have never flown before”, the spokesman said. Saint Jinke. The spokesman did not specify the day or days during which exercises or places where fighter planes were travelling were held.
According to Chinese medium “Xinhua”, however, exercises were held in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea included surface rocket forces in the air, fighter planes and warning planes, reports “Sputnik International” Transmission Periscope.
Beijing plans to continue to exercise to protect China's strategic interests in the region, the Chinese spokesman said.
A Beijing military analyst spoke of “South China Morning Post”, “The high profile reporting time from PLA AF is also a warning for Washington and Seoul not to further provoke Penian”.
Last week General Shao Yuanming and General Richard Clarke of the US Department of Defence met in Washington to discuss opportunities to improve communications channels related to the situation on the Korean peninsula.
The meetings were held just hours after North Korea's test of the Husong-15 ballistic missile, which reached a 10-fold height above the orbit of the International Space Station. The rocket travelled 1,000 kilometers before it was thrown into the Sea of Japan, but it could have travelled 6,500 miles, which was flying into a standard trajectory./Periscopi/
