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(LEAD) S. Korean Navy fires warning shots against N. Korean fishing boats By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Navy on Friday fired warning shots against North Korean fishing boats operating south of the western sea border, but there was no clash with the North's navy, military officials said. A total of six North Korean boats had violated the sea border since 11 a.m. Two South Korean patrol vessels were sent to the area before broadcasting radio warnings twice and then firing off dozens of warning shots from around 3 p.m., officials said. All of the North...

N. Korean fishing boats retreat after violating West Sea border 2012-09-12 20:20 Seven North Korean fishing boats crossed the tense western maritime border with South Korea twice on Wednesday, but moved back into the North’s waters after a South Korean naval boat broadcast warning messages, military officials said. The North Korean fishing boats sailed 1.5 kilometers into the South’s waters around 7:30 a.m., but retreated after South Korean patrol boats broadcast a warning, officials at Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. At the time, a North Korean government boat also briefly crossed the de facto sea border trying to escort...

N.Korea Reinforces Coastal Artillery North Korea is reinforcing artillery bases along the west coast in the lead-up to the first anniversary of the shelling of Yeonpyeong island on Nov. 23. The coastal artillery base that indiscriminately fired at Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23, 2010 is on the stretch of coast that is now being reinforced. A South Korean government source on Thursday said intelligence forces have detected signs that the North is building new coastal artillery bases in Kaemori and on Jangsan cape across from the island. "It seems that they were either relocating the artillery base because last year's...

S. Korean military beefs up border vigilance against N. Korea 2011-10-12 21:45 South Korea's military has stepped up its combat readiness after detecting unusual military movement by North Korea's armed forces along the tense western sea border, Seoul officials said Wednesday. Seoul recently discovered that the North's military had relocated a ground-to-air missile to north of the South's northernmost island of Baengnyeong. In addition, Pyongyang has moved the missile's movable launching pad to a missile base near the western sea border, a senior government official said, requesting anonymity. South Korean soldiers take part in a military drill on the beach...

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NK vows retaliation if S. Korea conducts live-fire drills near border North Korea vowed Friday to retaliate with greater firepower if South Korea goes ahead with its planned live-fire drills from the frontline island that has been devastated by North Korean shelling. "Second and third self-defensive blows that cannot be predicted will be dealt" if South Korea conducts the one-day drills scheduled between Saturday and Tuesday, the North's military said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). "The intensity and range of the firepower will create a situation more serious than one on Nov. 23"...

* December 14, 2010, 6:00 PM KST Harrison’s Giveaway Idea Slapped Down The way out of the latest fracas with North Korea is to give Pyongyang what it wants, Selig Harrison, a former journalist who has visited Pyongyang several times, wrote on the op-ed page of The New York Times Monday. It is one of the most extreme views expressed anywhere since North Korea’s attack of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23. And the takedown in South Korea and on Korea-related blogs has been swift. One of South Korea’s most powerful newspaper columnists, Kim Dae-joong of Chosun Ilbo, the...

North Korea expresses regret at civilian deaths Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:23:03 GMT Seoul - North Korea on Saturday expressed its regret at the civilian deaths from its shelling of a South Korean island earlier in the week, but then blamed the south for provoking the incident and accused it of using human shields. In a comment via the state-run KCNA news agency, Pyongyang accused the south of using civilians as human shields on Yeonpyeong island and remarked on the reports of civilian deaths. "If that is true, it is very regrettable, but the enemy should be held responsible for...

Noteworthy in this short FNN Network News (Japanese) clip located at this page.Click on white triangle on the Japanese text page, after going to the link, to stream (on most systems, up for another day or so). Approximately one minute long clip, from Japanese evening news a few hours ago here in Tokyo.a) Footage of Pyongyang, North Korean TV female announcer spitting bile and filth towards innocent South Korea saying that they deserved the attacks because they started it and more would be on the way. b) Japanese and South Korean reporters today apparantly caught and cornered the envoy...

Cheonan the Introduction to Kim's Second Act By Sohn Kwang Joo, Chief Editor [2010-06-03] What does it all mean? Why was South Korea attacked by North Korea? Some say that the Cheonan incident was retaliation for the Daecheong naval battle of November last year, while others say it was related to the succession. But the underlying reason is different. South Korea and the international community have not yet figured out recent changes to Kim Jong Il’s survival tactics. That is, there have been changes to Kim Jong Il’s international and domestic strategy for survival with which his foes have yet...

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — Investigators let media have a look at the wreckage of the Cheonan on Wednesday, the day before South Korea was to formally announce that a North Korea torpedo sank the South Korean patrol ship. The wreckage of the March 26 sinking was retrieved from the Yellow Sea near the maritime border between the two Koreas and hauled to South Korea’s Second Fleet Command base in Pyeongtaek. Yoon Duk-yong, an investigator with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, told reporters Wednesday that evidence from the recovered pieces of the ship points to a torpedo attack....

N. Korean naval boats violate western sea border SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- Two North Korean patrol boats separately crossed into South Korean waters on Saturday night but retreated after the South Korean Navy fired warning shots, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JSC) said Sunday. According to JSC officials, a North Korean naval boat crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea at 10:13 p.m. Saturday and came about 2.2 kilometers into South Korean waters. The North Korean boat sailed back to the North 30 minutes later after receiving a warning communication from the South Korean Navy, they...

North Korea has unilaterally designated eight areas in the waters north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea on the west coast of the peninsula and the East Sea as “naval firing zones” for three days starting today. The South Korean Defense Ministry said yesterday that the North announced the zones via Navtex, the Russian maritime broadcasting system. It said the zones were in effect for all three days between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. It is the fourth time the North has declared naval firing zones since Jan. 25. The four zones in the Yellow Sea...

(LEAD) N. Korea restarts artillery firing near western sea border: official SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Thursday resumed firing artillery shells toward a South Korean island near the inter-Korean maritime border in the Yellow Sea, a defense official in Seoul said. North Korea began to shoot toward the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong from 8:15 a.m., with all the shells landing in the North's own waters north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the Seoul official said, requesting anonymity as he was unauthorized to speak to media.

North Korea fires more artillery: report (2010-01-27) (Reuters) - SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired more artillery in the direction of a disputed naval border with South Korea on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency said, hours after the rivals had an initial exchange that stoked regional security tensions. North Korea said the earlier firing was part of routine military drills and it would fire more into the waters that were inside its territory.

/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...