S.Korea Urges DPRK to Prevent Recurrence of Sea Border Crossing

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, May 29, 2003

S.Korea Urges DPRK to Prevent Recurrence of Sea Border Crossing

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South Korea Wednesday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to take measures to prevent its fishing boats from crossing the northern limit line (NLL), said the South Korean national news agency Yonhap News.

In a telephone message to the DPRK side via the South Korean Red Cross Society, Seoul expressed concern about "unnecessary tensions raised by DPRK fishing vessels crossing" of the controversial sea border of the two countries.

The South Korean side views the NLL as the de facto sea border between the two countries, but Pyongyang has not accepted this conception yet. NLL is the prolongation part of the military demarcation line (MDL) divided the two countries on the Korean Peninsula in the Yellow Sea.

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said that DPRK fishing boats crossed the NLL for fifth times this week to catch crabs.

Last June, the navies of South Korea and the DPRK had a skirmish in the Yellow Sea around the NLL, in which four service men of the South Korean navy were dead and 20 others injured.

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