South Korean officials have criticised a North Korean artillery launch they said happened minutes before a Chinese commercial plane carrying 202 people flew in the same area.
It wasn't immediately clear what danger, if any, the launch on Tuesday posed to the China Southern Airlines plane traveling from Tokyo in Jepan to Shenyang in China. But the defence ministry in Seoul called it a "serious threat" that Pyongyang failed to notify international aviation authorities of its launch plans in the area.
A ministry spokesman, Kim Min-seok, said the plane had been traveling at an altitude of six miles, while the projectile's peak altitude was 12 miles, and the flight passed through the area about five minutes after the projectile hit the water.
An unidentified North Korean army spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday night that rocket drills conducted from 21 February until Tuesday were part of regular training. He said that neither regional security nor international navigation had been in danger because the North took "scrupulous advance security measures for flight orbit and targets in the designated waters".
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It wasn't immediately clear what danger, if any, the launch on Tuesday posed to the China Southern Airlines plane traveling from Tokyo in Jepan to Shenyang in China. But the defence ministry in Seoul called it a "serious threat" that Pyongyang failed to notify international aviation authorities of its launch plans in the area.
A ministry spokesman, Kim Min-seok, said the plane had been traveling at an altitude of six miles, while the projectile's peak altitude was 12 miles, and the flight passed through the area about five minutes after the projectile hit the water.
An unidentified North Korean army spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday night that rocket drills conducted from 21 February until Tuesday were part of regular training. He said that neither regional security nor international navigation had been in danger because the North took "scrupulous advance security measures for flight orbit and targets in the designated waters".
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