Replying to a message of Adam Flinton to All:

 AFadam{at}NOSPAMsoftfab.com>



 AFtonyiNOSPAM{at}attglobal.net> wrote in message
 AF> news:3e64310f{at}w3.nls.net...
 >> OK, we're going to officially protest this incident somehow...BFD.  As
 >> if
 AF> they care.
 >> 

 AF> I'm curious as to how your gov can protest with no diplomatic
 AF> relations.

 >> One protest they would respect FOR SURE is to somehow fit the spy birds
 AF> with a few hardpoints and the Phoenix system, then lock them
 >> up if they decide to get rude.
 >> 

 AF> great so then they just decide to wait for a US spy plane to get into
 AF> NK airspace & then they splash it.

In the late 1960's NK intercepted and shot down a US Navy EC-121 operating
well outside of their airspace.  More recently China intercepted a US Navy
EP3 operating outside of their airspace off Hainan Island, their hotshot
MiG pilot miscalculated his distance and collided with it - causing the
forced landing on a Chinese airfield.

Then, of course, in 1968 there was the fracas with the USS Pueblo - which
they still have AFAIK.
I was stationed at Kadena AB, Okinawa at the time, and the 18th Tactical
Fighter Wing (F-4's) deployed from Kadena to Suwon AB, South Korea, THAT
DAY.  All of it, including mechanics, tools and ground equipment; the only
part of the unit left on Okinawa was the first sergeant and two guys that
happened to be in the hospital.  It sure was convenient that SAC's 4252nd
Strategic Wing (also at Kadena) had a couple of dozen KC-135's handy.

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