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South Korea conducts first live-fire artillery drill along maritime border in seven years

South Korea's military conducted a live-fire artillery exercise on islands near the western inter-Korean maritime border for the first time in seven years on Wednesday, according to the Marine Corps.

2024-06-26

North Korea warns of military action over alleged western sea border violations

North Korea threatened Sunday to take action against South Korea over what it claims are violations of the de facto western maritime border, ratcheting up tensions ahead of a trilateral summit in Seoul.

2024-05-26

Defense chief urges defense of NLL on anniversary of Cheonan sinking

Defense Minister Shin Won-sik on Tuesday called for defending the western sea border against enemy threats on the anniversary of the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship by a North Korean torpedo attack.

2024-03-26

North orders intensified readiness near the NLL after 'new' cruise missile test

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised the test-firing of a new surface-to-sea missile, its state media reported Thursday, and ordered a strengthened defense posture around islands near the western maritime border.

2024-02-15

Kim Jong-un urges constitutional change to define South as 'No. 1 hostile country'

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for constitutional amendments defining South Korea as the North's “No. 1 hostile country," Pyongyang's state media reported Tuesday.

2024-01-16

North Korea continues artillery shell firings for second consecutive day

North Korea launched an additional 60 artillery shells into the West Sea on Saturday.

2024-01-06

Military failed to detect defectors' boat, but will hand out awards anyway

Despite military authorities' initial failure to detect a North Korean wooden boat as it crossed the NLL in the East Sea last week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) decided to award units and soldiers who later identified and tracked the vessel.

2023-11-01

Yoon vows to respond firmly to North Korea's provocations

President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Thursday to respond firmly to North Korea's provocations as he marked the anniversary of a 1999 inter-Korean naval skirmish near the maritime border.

2023-06-15

Seoul mayor says sorry, but not sorry for alert message

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.

2023-05-31

[THINK ENGLISH] 북한 두 일가족, 어선 타고 NLL 넘어 귀순

Two North Korean families that included children entered the South by sailing across the de facto inter-Korean maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea earlier this month, South Korean military authorities revealed Thursday. Their passage marks the...

2023-05-23