‘Friendly Fire’ Incident Involving Two Korean Fighter Planes Engaging in War Games With the Americans Injures 15

That no one was killed and only two were seriously injured comes as a relief to the American and Korean commands, anxious to go through with the war games involving thousands of Americans and South Koreans.

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South Korea firefighters near the site where South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped bombs on a civilian area during training, at Pocheon, South Korea, March 6, 2025. AP/Lee Jin-man

SEOUL — In wartime, it would have been “friendly fire.” In peacetime, the bombing of civilians by two Korean fighter planes Thursday went down as a “training accident” in which 15 people, five of them Korean soldiers, were injured, two seriously.

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