PUSHY: 5 Chinese warplanes enter Korea’s air defense zone.

The flight into the KADIZ [Korean Air Defense Identification Zone] came just two days after President Moon Jae-in returned home from his four-day state visit to China during which time he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders to discuss issues related to the deployment of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system and other challenges.

The JCS said Seoul countered by sending fighter jets including F-15Ks to the area, noting that the Chinese aircraft also flew into the Japanese Air Defense Identification Zone (JADIZ).

The aircraft then left the KADIZ and flew back toward China, the JCS added.

“South Korea’s fighter jets that scrambled to the area indentified the types of the Chinese military aircraft,” a JCS official said, asking not to be named. “Our fighter jets took normal tactical measures until the Chinese planes left.”

In response to the Air Force’s warning messages through a hotline, Beijing said that the flight was part of a routine exercise and that it had no intention of infringing South Korea’s territorial airspace, the official said.

South Korea is a peaceful trading nation. If anyone in the region deserves the attention of China’s military, it’a the expansionist Kim regime in the North.