North Korea May Struggle to Shoot U.S. Bombers Out of the Sky
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It’s been almost half a century since North Korea shot down a U.S. military aircraft. These days its generals might find it even tougher.
North Korea’s top diplomat on Monday called President Donald Trump’s warnings to Pyongyang a declaration of war, and said his country would be within its rights to shoot down U.S. warplanes in international airspace. Two days earlier, the U.S. had sent fighter jets and bombers the farthest north of the demilitarized zone that any had flown off North Korea’s coast this century.