In fact, North Korea still relies on old Soviet-era MiG-21 warplanes the country acquired from the Soviet Union in the 1960s. North Korea wants its neighbors—and the United States—to fear it.

After receiving state of the art MiG-21 fighters from the Soviet Union from 1963, North Korea quickly deployed them to intercept U.S. aircraft that it claimed violated its airspace. North Korean ...

shares performance characteristics with the MiG-21 but incorporates several distinct parts. North Korea's reported possession of more than 130 J-7 aircraft suggests a significant inventory of ...

A veteran of more than 100 combat flights, the 21-year-old pilot climbed ... a $100,000 reward to the first North Korean pilot to defect with a MIG. Rowe maintained that he knew nothing of that ...

The MiG-21 had no official Russian identifier ... Today, 18 countries still operate this warbird, including Cuba and North Korea, not to mention NATO allies Croatia and Romania.

On April 15, 1969, North Korean MiG fighter planes shot down an American ... just 35 miles from the border.) On May 21, the Joint Chiefs came up with a medium-size approach—sending three B ...

21, 1953, he had seemingly pulled off ... over North Korea offering a $100,000 reward to the first North Korean pilot to defect with a MIG. Mr. Rowe maintained that he knew nothing of that reward ...