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N.Korean Fighter Jet Sorties Close to Border

A North Korean SU-25 fighter jet flew unusually close to Seoul on Tuesday when it hovered over the border city of Kaesong. A military source here said the fighter jet crossed over the so-called tactical action line and flew over Kaesong for several minutes before returning.

The TAL is an arbitrary line the South Korean military set at 20 to 50km north of the military demarcation line and the Northern Limit Line in the West Sea assuming that North Korean fighter jets can reach the Seoul metropolitan area in just three to five minutes after take-off.

The South Korean Air Force immediately scrambled four fighter jets -- two KF-16s and two F-52s.

A South Korean military official said, "North Korea normally evaluates combat readiness in May and June prior to summer training that begins in August. But it is very rare for a North Korean fighter jet to cross the TAL and comes down to Kaesong."

North Korean fighter jets have been flying southward near the TAL two to three times a day recently and have crossed the line twice this year. "We don't think the move aimed to threaten the South, but we're preparing for the possibility of a military provocation in the air," the official said.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/06/07/2012060701247.html

[Steelrails]

An SU-25 is not a fighter jet. And what in the world is an F-52? An F-5 Tiger II?

This reminds me of reporting back home where reporters would say something like "The perpetrator was armed with an UZI" and in reality it was an MP5 or something else.

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[ajosshi]

[ttompatz]

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[Dave Chance]

If only Korean viewers of the news could catch on and tell the Chosun Ilbo to stfu

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