SEOUL, South Korea — Russia wants an investigation into a South Korean announcement that one of its military planes violated South Korea's airspace, a senior lawmaker said Wednesday, citing Russia's acting ambassador. The US separately called for a close consultation between Washington and Seoul to deal with similar incidents in the future.
— Russia wants an investigation into a South Korean announcement that one of its military planes violated South Korea’s airspace, a senior lawmaker said Wednesday, citing Russia’s acting ambassador. The US separately called for a close consultation between Washington and Seoul to deal with similar incidents in the future.
Yoon Sang-hyun, chairman of the South Korean parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, quoted Russia’s Acting Ambassador Maxim Volkov as telling him that Russia feels “regrettable” over the incident. Later Wednesday, South Korea’s presidential national security director Chung Eui-yong discussed the issue with visiting US National Security Adviser John Bolton. Chung explained Bolton about South Korea’s “resolute” response to the Russia airspace violation, and Bolton proposed the allies closely coordinate over similar future incidents, South Korea’s presidential office said in a statement.
South Korea said it was the first time a foreign military plane had violated its airspace since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. The foreign and defense ministries on Tuesday summoned Volkov and Russia’s deputy military attache in South Korea, Nikolai Marchenko, to register their complaints. They also summoned China’s ambassador and the defense attache to protest Beijing’s overflight.
The airspace that South Korea says the Russian reconnaissance plane entered is above a group of islets controlled by South Korea but also claimed by Japan.
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