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More than 170 Cases of U.S. Aerial Espionage against DPRK in Sept.

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists committed more than 170 cases of aerial espionage and exercises of aerial nuclear attack against the DPRK by mobilizing strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes with various missions in September, according to a military source. U-2s were busy spying on the DPRK's strategic and military objects on Sept. 20 and 21. Seven tactical reconnaissance planes including RC-12 and RC-7B flew in the sky above areas along the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) on Sept. 23 to spy on major military objects and military movements in the north.
    On Sept. 15 E-3 frequently flew on a mission to spy areas of the north while commanding at least 400 fighters of different types engrossed in the war exercises for aggression. On Sept. 9 EP-3 flew in the air above the East and West Seas of Korea to perpetrate a survey and electronic photographing of coastal areas and seabed of the north.
    Meanwhile, the U.S. imperialists further intensified the exercises for aerial nuclear attack on the north by mobilizing up-to-date strategic bombers in the month.
    On Sept. 6 and 8 B-52Hs took off the U.S. air force base in Guam and flew to a firing range in the area of Thaebaek City of south Korea for staging long-distance flight and bomb-dropping exercises under the simulated conditions of a nuclear strike at the north. The U.S. imperialists conducted six exercises for aerial nuclear attack in the sky above the Korean Peninsula and waters around it with a total of more than ten strategic bombers involved.