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/begin my translation N. Korea's Shore-to-ship Missile System Activated For an Hour Some ships in Baekryung and Yonpyung Island evacuated. Two Squadrons of high speed patrol boats readied for rapid response (Seoul = Yonhap News) Kim Kwi-keun = (S. Korean) Military went on alert after detecting that N. Koreans turned on the fire-control radar for shore-to-ship missiles deployed along N. Korean area(shore) north of Yonpyung Island in the West Sea, according to the military authorities on Nov. 15 The military sources said, "Approximately at 1 PM today, we detected that the fire-control radar for N. Korea's multiple shore-to-ship missile bases...

(3rd LD) N. Korea threatens 'merciless' action to defend sea border with S. Korea By Sam Kim and Kim Hyun SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Yonhap) -- North Korea threatened "merciless" military action Friday to defend its maritime border with South Korea, demanding an apology for a naval skirmish earlier this week off their west coast. The statement by the chief of North Korea's military delegation is a response to the protest his South Korean counterpart lodged hours after the navies of the two countries engaged briefly near the Northern Limit Line (NLL) on Tuesday, officials here said. South Korea suffered no...

Fears mount that North Korea is preparing to attack the South Richard Lloyd Parry on the Northern Limit Line, Yellow Sea It was obvious that something was up when the Chinese scarpered. One day there were scores of their fishing boats hoovering up the valuable crabs from the richest of the fishing grounds in the Yellow Sea. Overnight all but a handful were gone. Anywhere else the locals would have been glad to have the crabs to themselves but this is no ordinary fishing ground. A few yards from here is the maritime boundary between South and North Korea. “The...

/begin my excerpts N. Korea: Chinese Fishing Vessels All Disappeared Near Disputed Yellow Sea Area A fisherman "A development similar to previous naval clashes," the authorities wary (Inchon = Yonhap News) Choi Jung-in = While tension continues amid series of hard-line rhetoric from N. Korea, Chinese fishing vessels suddenly disappeared near the five Yellow Sea Islands, prompting speculation on its cause. /snip In 1999 and 2002, when First and Second Yonpyong Naval Battle(aka Crab War I, II: firefights between both Koreas' navy,) Chinese vessels disappeared all at the same time a few days before the battles, and residents here are...

North Korea scraps all accords with South By Jonathan Thatcher 1 hr 51 mins ago SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Friday it was scrapping all accords with the South, the latest in a series of verbal attacks on its neighbor that analysts say are more aimed at grabbing the attention of new U.S. President Barack Obama. One analyst said the latest rise in tension increased the chances of a military clash on the heavily armed border that has divided the two Koreas for more than half a century. "There is neither way to improve (relations) nor hope to...

North Korea vows to redraw sea boundary Published: Jan. 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM SEOUL, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- North Korea Saturday vowed to "shatter" South Korea's military in an attempt to redraw the inter-Korean boundary in the Yellow Sea. North Korea maintains the boundary line should be moved further south of where it was unilaterally drawn by U.S.-led forces at the end of the Korea War in 1953, Yonhap News Agency reported Saturday. "Our revolutionary armed forces are compelled to take an all-out confrontational posture to shatter them," a spokesman for the North Korean military said of South Korea's...

/begin my translation Two Badly Drunken N. Koreans Wander into the South on a Boat Yonhap News 2007.06.02 10:30 A small wooden boat with two N. Koreans inside was found inside the S. Korean waters. (S. Korean) Joint Chiefs of Staff announced on June 2, "At 2am this morning, a small boat drifted 2.5 miles to the south of NLL(note: a dividing line on the sea between North and South Korea,) from 13 miles to the South West of Yonpyong Island in Yellow Sea. Navy patrol ship spotted the boat and towed it to Inchon." They added that there...

NKorea Warns SKorea Over Border Dispute By JAE-SOON CHANG Associated Press Writer Published May 21, 2007, 5:26 AM CDT SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's navy on Monday accused South Korea of sending warships into its waters off the divided peninsula's west coast, warning the South would face unspecified "consequences" if the alleged provocations continue. The South's Defense Ministry rejected the North's accusation. "We never violated the Northern Limit Line," said a ministry official, referring to the U.N.-drawn sea border. The official spoke on condition of anonymity citing policy. The North's navy command claimed that the South's "warlike forces infiltrated"...

South Korea intercepts two N.Korea fighter jets By Kim So-young Fri Nov 11, 3:12 AM ET SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea scrambled six fighter jets on Friday to intercept two North Korean planes that briefly crossed a disputed frontier over the Yellow Sea before heading back, the South Korean military said. ADVERTISEMENT It was not immediately clear why the aircraft had flown south of the disputed Northern Limit Line, known as the NLL. But the incident occurred as six countries, including the North, met without evident progress in Beijing to discuss how to end Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs. It was...

/begin my summary3 N. Koreans, presumed to be a family, defected at Baek-ryong island[Yonhap News, 2005/06/26] Around 9:55 am on June 26, 2.9 miles away to the North East of Baek-ryong Island, a N. Korean barge indicated the willingness to defect. It was towed to Yong-ki-po Harbor at Baek-ryong Island at 11:40 am, according to the (S. Korean) Joint Chief of Staffs. Inside the boat were Mr. Hong(male, age:42), Mr. Moon(female, age:39), a 15-year-old boy. They are presumed to be a family. They reportedly left Yong-hyun, Ku-mi-po District, N. Korea.around 5:30 am, June 25. The barge is an 1.7-ton boat...