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Old Jun 3, 2009 | 2:36 pm
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Originally Posted by catandmouse
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.
Actually LH does fly over north korean airspace or at least used to. They even mentioned in in a publication somewhere.
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