CONFLICT
South Korea Deploys Stealth Jets After Detecting N. Korean Warplanes
The US-Korea "Vigilant Storm" exercises this year are the biggest ever, including 140 South Korean and over 100 American jets, and Pyongyang claims they are in reaction mode to this provocation and threat to its security. The north has responded to the increasing hazardous muscle-flexing during these maneuvers by launching 180 flights close to the common Military Demarcation Line that delineates the border between the two rival nations.