Japanese-Controlled Aircraft: Missile-Targeting Radar and Japanese Plane

japanese-controlled aircraft: Both sides disagree on what happened next -- the Japanese said the South Koreans targeted their aircraft with missile-targeting radar, while the South Koreans said the Japanese plane was flying dangerously low and that the radar was not intended to trace any Japanese-controlled aircraft, according to CNN. The disagreement has quickly escalated, bringing to the fore historical disputes previously on the back-burner and -- in turn -- threatening the region's stability. The spat began December 20 after an encounter between a Japanese plane, which Tokyo said was collecting intelligence, and a South Korean destroyer, which Seoul said was on a humanitarian mission. East Asian geopolitics has been shaken loose and is now unsettled, said Van Jackson, a former US Department of Defense official specializing in the Asia-Pacific. Amid all this tumult, suppressed animosities are started to crack through the veneer of regional stability. Read More China is seeking to push out the US, North Korea has pulled a jiujitsu move by using summit diplomacy to solidify its status as a nuclear state even as the ostensible purpose is to denuclearize Pyongyang, and the future of the US in the region is less certain now than any time since the 1970s. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.