N. Korea accuses Washington and Seoul of sending spy planes, boats

The country has accused the United States and South Korea of conducting more aerial espionage around the peninsula, warning that it would take “immediate action” if its sovereignty was breached.

America has deployed dozens of military planes “in air espionage against the DPRK from May 13 to 24”, the North’s vice defence minister Kim Kang-il said in a statement, referring to his country by its official name.