{"id":1968647,"date":"2023-07-10T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-threatens-to-shoot-down-us-planes\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:31:45","slug":"north-korea-threatens-to-shoot-down-us-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-threatens-to-shoot-down-us-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea warns of shooting down US aircraft."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-korea-threatens-to-shoot-down-us-planes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1968647&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>A North Korea military parade \/ Reuters<\/h2>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>North Korea&#8217;s Bold Threat to Shoot Down U.S. Spy Planes<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no guarantee that such a shocking accident as the downing of the U.S. Air Force strategic reconnaissance plane will not happen in the East Sea of Korea,&#8221; a <a href=\"https:\/\/kcnawatch.org\/newstream\/1688949276-571204234\/press-statement-by-spokesman-for-dprk-ministry-of-national-defence\/\">statement<\/a> by a North Korean defense ministry spokesman published by the Korean Central News Agency read.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea claimed several U.S. reconnaissance planes and drones flew around the Korean peninsula for &#8220;eight straight days&#8221; to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-threatens-to-shoot-down-us-planes\/\" title=\"North Korea warns of shooting down US aircraft.\">conduct provocative aerial espionage<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In particular, a strategic reconnaissance plane of the U.S. Air Force illegally intruded into the inviolable airspace of the DPRK over its East Sea tens of kilometers several times,&#8221; the statement read. South Korea\u2019s military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/north-korea-denounces-us-move-bring-ballistic-missile-submarine-peninsula-2023-07-09\/\">told<\/a> Reuters the airspace violation claims were untrue and that the United States routinely conducts reconnaissance flights.<\/p>\n<p>The threat comes amid increased tensions in the region as North Korea continues to develop its nuclear arsenal. The country\u2019s military <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/north-korea-unveils-new-nuclear-warheads-that-experts-say-could-reach-us\/\">unveiled<\/a> nuclear warheads in March that experts say could reach the United States. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s powerful sister earlier that month <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/north-korea-warns-biden-admin-interfering-with-regimes-missile-tests-a-declaration-of-war\/\">warned<\/a> interference with nuclear weapons testing would be considered a &#8220;declaration of war.&#8221; An April watchdog report <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/north-korean-nuclear-arsenal-nearly-doubled-since-2017-report-says\/\">found<\/a> the North Korean nuclear arsenal has nearly doubled since 2017. The United States has repeatedly failed to upgrade its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/army-releases-woke-cartoon-recruitment-ad-after-woke-cia-ads-mocked\/\" title=\"Army Releases Woke Cartoon Recruitment Ad After Woke CIA Ads Mocked\">missile defense systems<\/a>, a May <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/americas-missile-defense-system-is-in-tatters-government-report-finds\/\">report<\/a> by the Government Accountability Office found.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea also said the presence of a U.S. nuclear submarine near the peninsula was &#8220;the most undisguised nuclear blackmail&#8221; and &#8220;proves that the situation of the Korean peninsula is coming closer to the threshold of nuclear conflict due to the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-makes-demands-of-u-s-at-bilateral-talks\/\" title=\"China makes demands of U.S. at bilateral talks\">provocative military action<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The United States <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-submarine-north-korea-missiles-3bf330fa9f8a19cb9b90f0af3d6bac3a\">deployed<\/a> a nuclear-powered submarine that can carry 150 Tomahawk missiles to South Korean waters last month, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>future,&#8221; warned a North Korean official. Tensions rise as North Korea accuses the US of violating its airspace during aerial drills. The threat to shoot down US spy planes looms, highlighting the potential for a disastrous accident. The situation remains volatile, with fears of a potential clash between the two nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2083,"featured_media":1968648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}