by REERA YOO
The South Korean navy fired warning shots after a North Korean patrol boat crossed the disputed Yellow Sea border on Friday, said the South’s military.
According to Reuters, the North Korean boat crossed the waters off Baengnyeong Island just after noon and retreated six minutes after the South fired six warning rounds.
The incident took place on the same day as the opening ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, in which North Korea is competing.
This is not the first time there has been tension over the volatile sea border. In 2010, North Korea shelled Yeonpeong Island and killed four South Koreans, and earlier this year, the two sides exchanged hundreds of shells into each other’s waters.
Yonhap quoted an unidentified military official saying that the North Korean vessel crossed the border to tow an unmanned barge that had drifted into southern waters back to the North.
Earlier this week, South Korea recovered wreckage of a suspected North Korean drone found near the disputed maritime border.
Photo via Deutsche Welle (DW)
