Supported the invasion of the South with piston aircraft, was destroyed by August 1950, then rebuilt on MiG-15s under a joint command with Chinese and Soviet air units.

The air force opened the war on 25 June 1950 with Soviet-supplied Yak-9 fighters and Il-10 attack aircraft flown by pilots whom Soviet advisers had rated largely unready. Once US and UN air power arrived it was destroyed in the air and on the ground within weeks; Wikipedia, citing Douglas Dildy, credits it with only three US aircraft shot down in air combat — a B-29, an L-4 and an L-5. From 1 November 1950 the Soviet 64th Fighter Aviation Corps flew MiG-15s from Manchuria, secretly, and from 1951 within a United Air Army with the Chinese air force; North Korean MiG-15 units trained and flew within the same system. The jet battles over north-west Korea became known as MiG Alley. Two months after the armistice a North Korean pilot, No Kum-sok, delivered an intact MiG-15 to the United States by defecting to Kimpo.

结果 Armistice of 27 July 1953; no peace treaty has been signed.

Kill and loss claims from the Korean War air war are contested on every side; all figures here are attributed to the side or historian that made them. Much of the North Korean detail comes from Wikipedia’s reading of Dildy (Air Power History, 2012) and was not checked against the original.

为……飞行

朝鲜人民军空军

在哪里

The Korean peninsula and, for the jet war, north-west Korea ("MiG Alley") from bases in Manchuria

旁边

China and Soviet Union

反对

United States, South Korea and United Nations Command

飞机

雅克-9, 伊尔-10, 米格-15

出击

No reliable North Korean total has been published.

损失

North Korean air losses are not reliably known. Soviet sources cited by Wikipedia say the original air force had ceased operating by 10 August 1950 and was wiped out by 22 August; of 93 Il-10s about 20 remained after a few weeks. For the whole air war the figures are each side’s own: US Sabre pilots claimed 792 MiGs for 78 Sabres lost (later research puts the ratio nearer 2:1); the Soviet 64th Fighter Aviation Corps claimed 1,097 UN aircraft and lost 335 aircraft and 120 pilots (Popov and others, via Wikipedia). The United States lost 1,986 aircraft in all in Korea, most not in air combat.

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Sent fighter pilots and ground crew to fly North Vietnamese MiG-17s and MiG-21s under the Vietnamese Air Defence-Air Force Command.

On 21 September 1966 General Vo Nguyen Giap approved Pyongyang’s request to send pilots, and the two sides agreed the details later that month. From late 1966 through 1967 North Korea deployed three flight companies — two with MiG-17s and one with MiG-21s — subordinate to a Vietnamese regiment. The historian Merle Pribbenow, writing for the Wilson Center from Vietnamese sources, counts 87 North Korean air force personnel serving between 1967 and early 1969; Wikipedia gives 87 to 96 pilots.

结果 Withdrawn by early 1969.

Claims of 26 US aircraft are North Korean claims reported in Vietnamese sources; the number of North Koreans who served varies by source (87–96).

为……飞行

朝鲜人民军空军

在哪里

北越

旁边

北越

反对

美国

飞机

MiG-17, 米格-21

损失

14人死亡14 North Korean air force personnel killed, buried in Bac Giang province and repatriated to North Korea in 2002 (Pribbenow). The North Koreans claimed 26 American aircraft shot down; this is their claim and was not matched against US loss records.

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Two MiG-21s intercepted a US Navy EC-121M signals-intelligence aircraft and one shot it down with air-to-air missiles.

On 15 April 1969 a US Navy EC-121M of squadron VQ-1, call sign Deep Sea 129, was shot down over the Sea of Japan. The US Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command puts it about 80 nautical miles off the North Korean coast (Wikipedia says 90), and says it was hit by AA-2 Atoll infrared missiles. North Korea announced that it had downed an aircraft "intruding deep" into its airspace and called it a brilliant achievement; the United States said the aircraft was in international airspace under orders to stay at least 50 nautical miles offshore. President Nixon sent Task Force 71, built around the carrier Enterprise, into the Sea of Japan and ordered the flights resumed.

结果 No US military retaliation beyond a naval show of force and the resumption of reconnaissance flights within a week.

The distance from the coast differs between accounts (about 80 or 90 nautical miles); North Korea’s airspace claim is its own position.

为……飞行

朝鲜人民军空军

在哪里

Sea of Japan (East Sea)

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

美国

飞机

米格-21

出击

2Two MiG-21s, one of which attacked (US Navy account).

损失

0架飞机 · 0人死亡No North Korean losses. All 31 men aboard the EC-121M (30 sailors and one Marine) were killed; two bodies were recovered.

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A North Korean MiG-21 unit based at Bir Arida defended southern Egypt.

North Korea sent a MiG-21 squadron to Egypt in 1973 and based it at Bir Arida to protect the south of the country. Israeli pilots did not know they had fought North Koreans until after the war. The date of the best-known clash, in which Israeli F-4 Phantoms engaged two North Korean MiG-21s over the Gulf of Suez, is given differently: The Aviationist writes 6 October 1973, while Wikipedia places the last air combat on the Egyptian front, involving North Korean-piloted MiG-21s, on 6 December 1973.

结果 Withdrawn after the war.

Dates and outcomes rest on Israeli accounts retold by The Aviationist and Wikipedia; there is no North Korean or Egyptian official record in the sources checked.

为……飞行

朝鲜人民军空军

在哪里

Southern Egypt and the Gulf of Suez

旁边

埃及

反对

以色列

飞机

米格-21

损失

The Aviationist, citing Israeli accounts, says one North Korean MiG-21 in a clash with Israeli F-4s was shot down by an Egyptian surface-to-air missile, as later confirmed by Israeli air force intelligence. North Korean losses were not published.

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Five North Korean drones crossed the border on 26 December 2022; one entered the northern edge of the no-fly zone around the South Korean president’s office.

It was the first such intrusion in five years. South Korea scrambled fighters, light attack aircraft and attack helicopters, which fired about 100 warning rounds, without bringing any drone down. In October 2024 the roles were reversed: North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said South Korean drones had dropped leaflets over Pyongyang on 3, 9 and 10 October; South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it could not confirm the claim.

结果 South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff first denied, then admitted, the entry into the P-73 zone and speeded up counter-drone programmes.

Which North Korean organisation flies these drones is not published; they are listed here because they are the North’s only recent air operations over the South. No North Korean statement on the 2022 flights was found in the sources checked.

为……飞行

北朝鲜

在哪里

Northern South Korea and Seoul

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

韩国

飞机

小型侦察无人机

出击

5Five drones (South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, as reported by The War Zone).

损失

0人死亡None of the drones was shot down. A South Korean KA-1 crashed on take-off during the response; both crew ejected safely.

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