Seoul mobilizes its fighters following a Chinese-Russian air movement near its defensive field
Declared affiliate, what is paid scrambled its fighters as a precautionary measure to monitor the situation.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul stated that the Chinese and Russian aircraft entered the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) over the East Sea and the South Sea, before leaving it without violating the country’s sovereign airspace.
Monitoring aircraft movements
The authority added that the South Korean army monitored the movements of the aircraft before they entered the region, and deployed Air Force fighters in preparation for any developments. Emergency, without revealing additional details.
The air defense identification zone is a buffer zone used for security surveillance purposes, and is not part of sovereign airspace, but military aircraft are usually expected to notify the relevant country before entering, although this is not a legal obligation.
Similar incident
This development comes after a similar incident that occurred in December 2025, when nine Chinese and Russian military aircraft entered the air defense identification zone of South Korea. And Japan.
At that time, Seoul filed an official protest with Beijing and Moscow, while Tokyo expressed its concern about the repercussions of the incident on its national security.
At that time, China and Russia had made it clear that the air sorties came within the framework of a joint military patrol over the East Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean.
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