South Korean navy's patrol ships seek for survivors from a sunken South Korean navy ship close to Baekryeong island on March 29, 2010. (AP Photograph/Ahn Younger-joon,)
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA --
South Korea says it fired warning pictures at a North Korean patrol boat that briefly crossed the international locations’ disputed western sea boundary whereas chasing an unarmed North Korean vessel.
The North Korean patrol boat crossed the so-called Northern Restrict Line on Tuesday morning whereas pursuing the vessel in waters close to South Korea's Baekryeong island and retreated after a South Korean naval ship fired warning pictures, in response to Seoul’s Defence Ministry and Joint Chiefs of Employees.
South Korean army officers seized the North Korean vessel being chased by the patrol boat and have been questioning its seven crewmembers.
South Korea’s navy has usually fired warning pictures to repel North Korean vessels crossing the international locations’ poorly marked sea border, however there even have been some lethal clashes over time. South Korea blamed North Korea for an assault on a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors in 2010, however the North has denied accountability.
South Korea has patrolled waters across the Northern Restrict Line for many years after it was drawn up by the U.N. command on the finish of the 1950-53 Korean Warfare. North Korea doesn't acknowledge the road and insists upon a boundary that encroaches deeply into waters presently managed by the South.
Tuesday’s incident got here amid renewed tensions created by North Korea’s accelerating missile checks this yr, together with a launch on Saturday that the North mentioned examined applied sciences for a spy satellite tv for pc it's creating.
It got here a day earlier than South Koreans vote in a extremely contested presidential election. The bitter marketing campaign has been marked by clashes between main candidates over whether or not South Korea ought to proceed pursuing engagement with rival North Korea or take a more durable line to examine its nuclear menace.
Nuclear negotiations between the USA and North Korea have been stalled for 3 years due to disagreements over a rest of crippling U.S.-led sanctions on North Korea in alternate for steps towards its nuclear disarmament.
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