South Korea fires warning the shots while the North Korean ship crosses the maritime border Border conflict news

The South Korean army launched dozens of warning shots at the North Korean ship that crossed the disputed northern sea line.

Seoul, South Korea – Officials said the South Korean forces fired warning shots on the North Korean ship that crossed the disputed maritime border between the two countries in the yellow sea for up to an hour.

The North Korean ship crossed the northern border line (NLL) near the South Korean island of Baengnyeong at about 5 am on Friday (20:00 GMT) and remained on the southern side of the maritime border for an hour, while also providing up to 5 km (3.1 miles) south of the iron line.

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“Our army broadcast a warning and fired warning shots, and after that the North Korean merchant ship retracted our territorial waters,” said the South Korean chiefs (JCS) in a statement.

JCS said: “We closely monitor North Korea’s movements and responded according to operational procedures.”

The North Korean ship fell from the naval surveillance area in the south after dozens of warning footage by the South Korean army fired, according to the authorities, which also stated that the South Korean naval convoy was running operations in the region at the time of the border breach.

The accident is also held, where North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sun-Gyong is scheduled to attend the eighties of the eighties in New York.

North Korea has not yet commented on the accident.

“We will firmly maintain our position in preparation and respond to any position to protect NLL,” JCS added in her statement.

On Friday, the accident coincides with the first storming of North by North Korea in three years.

In October 2022, The North Korean merchant merchant ship also violated the demarcation line He was chased by warning footage of the South Korean warship.

The North Korean army also launched 10 rounds of artillery shells as warning divisions towards territorial waters in the south in response.

The disputed maritime border off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula is a source of long -term currencies between the two countries and led to many deadly confrontations, including North Korea’s bombing of South Korea in 2010 and lifting the South Korean naval ships that killed 46 naval in the same year.

Since the actual maritime borders between the Koreans, NLL was laid after the Korean War 1950-1953, but it was not recognized by North Korea, which claims that the maritime border is located to the south of the current border line.

Last year, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un denounced the border of the sea as “illegal and without law”, while calling for a redefinition of the borders of his country.