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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...