A dead minke whale was found on Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea. According to the Korea Coast Guard Station Incheon and a local environmental activist group called Green Incheon, the dead whale was discovered on Thursday at 12:49 p.m.
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon on Wednesday apologized for "causing confusion" with an early morning evacuation warning sent to residents by the city government in response to a North Korean projectile launch but said the alert was not a mistake.
Interim chief of the People Power Party Chung Jin-suk and other leadership of President Yoon Suk-yeol’s party visit a marine base stationed on Baengnyeong Island, which borders North Korea on the west of the peninsula, on Tuesday.
An empty ship was found drifting near the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto maritime boarder with North Korea, and the captain and his sole crew member are missing.
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