US Calls for Dialogue After North Korea Threatens to Shoot Down Spy Plane

A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul on May 31, 2023. Jung Yeon Je/AFP via Getty Images

The United States on Monday urged North Korea to engage in dialogue after Pyongyang warned that it may shoot down a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane for allegedly intruding into its airspace.

“I would just say that we would urge the DPRK to refrain from escalatory actions and again call on it to engage in serious and sustained diplomacy,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters.