{"id":34548,"date":"2022-11-05T04:51:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T23:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34548"},"modified":"2025-04-20T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T09:21:24","slug":"south-korea-scrambles-jets-after-detecting-north-korean-military-flights-near-border-amid-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/south-korea-scrambles-jets-after-detecting-north-korean-military-flights-near-border-amid-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Scrambles Jets After Detecting North Korean Military Flights Near Border Amid Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conflict Between North and South Korea \u2013 About, Panmunjom Declaration<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>South Korea\u2019s military said it scrambled fighter jets after detecting about 180 North Korean military flights north of the two countries\u2019 border.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conflict Between North and South Korea<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/editor_images\/2022\/11\/5\/11\/39\/17\/6365fe0edcba9e05b67ddb3c_OI.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since the beginning of the 20th century, Korea had been a part of the Japanese empire, and after World War II it fell to the Americans and the Soviets.\n<ul>\n<li>In other words, after WW II, USA and USSR were to decide what should be done with their enemy\u2019s (Japan\u2019s) imperial possessions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In August 1945, Korean peninsula was divided in half along the 38th parallel. The\u00a0Russians occupied the area north\u00a0of the line and the\u00a0United States occupied the area to its south.<\/li>\n<li>In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, starting the three-year Korean War. As a result, American troops had entered the war on South Korea\u2019s behalf.\n<ul>\n<li>As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Finally, in July 1953, the Korean War came to an end by signing of the armistice agreement.<\/li>\n<li>Since the signing of the armistice agreement, North and South Korea have been divided by a 4km wide demilitarised zone stretching 250km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Efforts towards peace: Panmunjom Declaration<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The leaders of North and South Korea, Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-in, met in the demilitarised zone between the two countries in April 2018.<\/li>\n<li>The aim of this summit was to\u00a0discuss the \u2018denuclearisation\u2019 of the Korean peninsula\u00a0and the\u00a0official end to the Korean War\u00a0(1950-53) which has technically still not concluded.<\/li>\n<li>Both the leaders signed the\u00a0<strong>Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In this declaration, both leaders agreed to:\n<ul>\n<li>work to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and, within the year,<\/li>\n<li>pursue talks with the United States to declare an official end to the Korean War, which ravaged the peninsula from 1950 to 1953.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The leaders also vowed to negotiate a treaty to replace a truce that has kept an uneasy peace on the divided Korean Peninsula for more than six decades.<\/li>\n<li>However, the recent tension between the two, points towards the failure of this summit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A per the South Korea\u2019s military, North Korean aircraft flew north of the so-called tactical measure line, drawn to up 20 km north of the Military Demarcation Line.<\/li>\n<li>South Korea scrambled 80 aircraft in response.<\/li>\n<li>The manoeuvres came after North Korea fired more than 80 rounds of artillery into the sea overnight, and the launch of multiple missiles into the sea, including a possible failed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Reasons behind the escalation of recent tension<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The escalation comes after North Korea warned against the recent joint military drills between the United States and South Korea.<\/li>\n<li>Recently, the US and South Korea began their largest-ever joint drills, called Operation Vigilant Storm.\n<ul>\n<li>These drills have been launched during a period of national mourning in South Korea, following a deadly crowd surge in Seoul in which over 150 people died.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>North Korea views these drills as provocative and a rehearsal for an invasion.<\/li>\n<li>On the other hand, US and South Korean officials have maintained that the military exercises are defensive in nature and that they do not plan to attack North Korea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s military said it scrambled fighter jets after detecting about 180 North Korean military&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}