Seoul: Pyongyang on Sunday warned Seoul against violating its western sea border as search continued for the body of a South Korean official who was shot and killed in North Korean waters.
South Korea has continued to locate the body of the 47-year-old fisheries official who was shot and killed by North Korean troops on September 22 after he drifted into their waters near the Yellow Sea border between the two sides, reports Yonhap News Agency. While the South has said that the troops burnt the official’s body, the North maintains that it was lost in the sea after he was shot. In a report, Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said: “According to a report by the western fleet of our navy, the South side has mobilized many vessels including warships to an action presumed to be a search operation and let them intrude into our territorial waters since September 25. It arouses our due vigilance as it may lead to another awful incident.
“We can never overlook any intrusion into our territorial waters and we seriously warn the south side against it. We urge the South side to immediately halt the intrusion across the military demarcation line in the west sea that may lead to escalation of tensions.” (IANS)
