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Old Jun 3, 2009 | 1:55 pm
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No-one flies over DPRK airspace except the one or two flights from PEK to Pyongyang. Anyone taking off from ICN on the north pointing runways will note that you bank fairly sharply after take-off. Apparently N. Korea uses civil airliners taking off from ICN as target practice for their radars. However, they've never fired any missiles.
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