North Korea Accuses US, South Korea Of Flying Reconnaissance Aircraft, Dropping Leaflets, Promises "Tit-For-Tat Action"
North Korea: The United States and South Korea is using “various spy means” and intensifying '“hostile air espionage” against Pyongyang.
PYONGYANG - North Korea has accused the United States and South Korea of “openly intensifying” what it describes as “hostile air espionage” against North Korea by flying reconnaissance “spy” planes on a daily basis, scattering leaflets using balloons near the North Korean border, and intrusions of the country’s maritime border, which it claims is being done under the pretext of mobile patrols.
It said that the United States and South Korea is using “various spy means” and intensifying '“hostile air espionage” against North Korea, including, “16 strategic reconnaissance planes of the U.S. Air Force, five RC-135s and eleven U-2Ss, were involved in air espionage against the DPRK from May 13 to 24,” Kim Kang Il, vice-minister of National Defense of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said.
He added, “Notably, the U.S. Air Force mobilized three RC-135s from May 20 to 23”.