The official KCNA news agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) reported Saturday that Japanese military aircraft made spying flights close to its territories on June 24-25, warning that the DPRK's airforce would shoot down any intruding Japanese military aircraft, Xinhua reported.
"An E-767 made a long shuttle flight from air above the waters east of Wonsan to the air above the waters east of Musudan after taking off from its base in Japan about 8:30 a.m. on June 25," the DPRK quoted a report of the Korean People's Army (KPA) as saying. It added that a similar flight took place on June 24.
Musudan is reportedly the place for DPRK's long-range rocket launch in April.
The report of the KPA regarded the Japanese move as an "unpardonable military provocation" on the DPRK, vowing to "mercilessly shoot down any plane intruding into the territorial air of the DPRK even by 0.001 mm."
Japan has so far made no response to the report.
The DPRK monthly reports spying flights against it conducted by the United States and South Korea. But it was the first for the DPRK to report Japanese spying flights over recent years.