The Canadian military flew seven surveillance missions over waters near China in the past month to enforce North Korean sanctions, but the Department of National Defence is no longer confirming whether Chinese aircraft intercepted those flights, as it has in years past.

The missions were flown from Japan as part of Operation Neon, the Canadian military’s longstanding effort to document and disrupt vessels suspected of evading United Nations sanctions on the import of fuel and other commodities into North Korea.

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Unlike in previous years, however, the military is not saying whether any of those flights were intercepted by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force.

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