March 3, 2003

Escalation watch  

BBC news has this report:

North Korean fighter jets flew just metres from a US reconnaissance plane in international airspace early on Sunday and shadowed it for 22 minutes, a Pentagon spokesman has said. The spokesman said four North Korean MiGs at one point approached the RC-135 plane as close as 15 metres (50 feet), with at least one of them locking onto it with its fire control radar.
It doesn't mention this in the article, but an RC-135 carries about 32 people. It's not the same kind of plane that went down in China after a collision with a Chinese fighter jet. But, as that incident showed, this kind of behavior can lead to serious problems.

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