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S Korean DM: DPRK declares another sail ban off west coast
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February 3, 2010, Wednesday
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THE Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has declared an additional four-day sail ban in two areas off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, Seoul's defense ministry said today.
An official from the ministry told a high-level government- ruling party meeting held earlier in the day that the DPRK set the two additional no sail zones in waters near the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea, effective during the period from Feb. 5 to 8, according to Seoul's Yonhap News Agency.
The new move by the DPRK raised concerns over the possibility of further artillery shells launch in the Yellow Sea, Yonhap said.
"It is possible that the North (DPRK) may show further provocations considering the redesignation of the naval firing zone," the official was quoted as saying.
The DPRK on Jan. 25 declared two shipping exclusion zones until March 29 in waters near the NLL, and fired some 350 artillery shells into the zones in the next few days, and declared five more on Monday off the west and the east coast effective from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2.
During Monday's inter-Korean working-level talks on Kaesong industrial park, South Korea protested against the DPRK's artillery shells firing, noting that the issue, which caused military tension between the two sides, will do nothing to improve the inter-Korean ties. But DPRK side said it was "a due military drill."
NLL was fixed unilaterally by the US-led United Nations Command after the 1950-1953 Korean War. South Korea holds the NLL as the de-facto western inter-Korean border, but the DPRK rejected the NLL and only recognized the demarcation line it drew in 1999, which was further south of the NLL.
An official from the ministry told a high-level government- ruling party meeting held earlier in the day that the DPRK set the two additional no sail zones in waters near the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea, effective during the period from Feb. 5 to 8, according to Seoul's Yonhap News Agency.
The new move by the DPRK raised concerns over the possibility of further artillery shells launch in the Yellow Sea, Yonhap said.
"It is possible that the North (DPRK) may show further provocations considering the redesignation of the naval firing zone," the official was quoted as saying.
The DPRK on Jan. 25 declared two shipping exclusion zones until March 29 in waters near the NLL, and fired some 350 artillery shells into the zones in the next few days, and declared five more on Monday off the west and the east coast effective from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2.
During Monday's inter-Korean working-level talks on Kaesong industrial park, South Korea protested against the DPRK's artillery shells firing, noting that the issue, which caused military tension between the two sides, will do nothing to improve the inter-Korean ties. But DPRK side said it was "a due military drill."
NLL was fixed unilaterally by the US-led United Nations Command after the 1950-1953 Korean War. South Korea holds the NLL as the de-facto western inter-Korean border, but the DPRK rejected the NLL and only recognized the demarcation line it drew in 1999, which was further south of the NLL.
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