Intelligence

Over 180 Cases of Aerial Espionage Committed in August

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

   Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces frantically committed aerial espionage against the DPRK in August by mobilizing strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes with different missions, according to a military source.
    An overseas-based RC-135 of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces flew in the sky over south Korea on August 28 to conduct aerial observation and photographing of all areas of the DPRK including its depth.
    On August 29 and 30, south Korea-based U-2 of the U.S. imperialists spied on the area of the DPRK, making shuttle flights from east to west round the clock. The cases of espionage perpetrated by this spy plane reached 27 in August.
    Prior to the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises for aggression, overseas-based E-3 and E-8C flew into air force bases of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea.
    The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces mobilized more than 30 strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes with different missions and commanding aircraft to spy on the area along the front line in the period from August 19 to 21 when the madcap exercises were under way.
    In the meantime, the south Korean puppet forces let two or three RC-800s and RF-4Cs make shuttle flights round the clock almost everyday in order to perpetrate high-altitude and low-altitude photographing of the areas of the DPRK.
    The number of cases of espionage committed by the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces against the DPRK in August reached more than 110 and the number of those perpetrated by the south Korean puppet forces in the same period over 70.
    The aerial espionage committed by them, timed to coincide with their beefing of aggression armed forces and their relocation and madcap saber-rattling, clearly indicate that the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppets remain unchanged in their aggressive ambition to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.