A North Korean navy patrol boat has allegedly crossed into the South’s territorial waters amid growing fears of a military confrontation between the two Koreas.
The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday that a boat had crossed the Yellow Sea border which was the scene of bloody clashes in 1999 and 2002.
The boat stayed almost one hour in the South’s waters and reportedly retreated to its own side after three warnings from the South Korean side.
This is while the South has deployed high-speed patrol boats armed with missiles near the disputed sea border with the North.
The boat was said to have been chasing Chinese boats that were operating illegally in the rich crab-fishing zone.
However, a South Korean spokesman said Seoul did not rule out the possibility that the act of intrusion had been pre-planned with the aim of further raising tensions in the peninsula.
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Last week, Pyongyang staged its second nuclear test and fired a number of short-range missiles, drawing global condemnation and resulting in a UN Security Council debate over the imposition of additional sanctions against the country.
North Korea, however, seems determined to proceed with the test-fires as it has declared a “no-sail” zone off its west coast and has banned ships from entering the area until the end of next month.
South Korean and American troops in the volatile peninsula have been on high alert since May 25 when the North conducted a nuclear test and launched several short-range missiles.
Pyongyang has accused US President Barack Obama of pursuing the same policies of his predecessor.
North Korea has renounced the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 and warned that it will launch strikes on the South in the event that its ships are inspected by international forces looking for nuclear material.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:59 am
SO WHY ARE WE IN AFGANISTAN AND NOT BY N. KOREA ? THANK YOUR OMAMA OUR GOVERNMENT ARE TRAITORS AND DEMONIC AND ARE GOING TO LEAD US INTO THE WAR OF ALL WARS… WAKE UP AND RESIST THIS TERRIBLE NEW WORLD ORDER BY OMAMA AND THE ELITE BILDERBERGER SECRET IDIOTS !!!!!!!!!!
phillyguy Reply:
June 4th, 2009 at 11:19 am
There’s gonna come a day when those same countries that the US/BabylonTheGreat/UnderSatan’sAuthority,send their troops in,we be on the shores of this country,returning the same favors that the US has been dishing out.And when that days comes,and it will,I’m praying to the Most High that he will at that time,deliver the real Biblical Israelites,out of this demonice place,known as the United States.
4YRLIFE Reply:
June 4th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
AMEN !!! THEY WILL ON THEIR KNEES AND JUDGEMENT WILL BE UPON THEM
Artyom Reply:
June 4th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
1) US is by N.Korea. 2)N.Korea has no oil. 3) N.Korea is just a thorn in the side of Washington D.C. outdated ideologies lingering in the present. A war unfinished, yet one not worth fighting at all. Talk about the past coming back to haunt.
June 4th, 2009 at 11:58 am
N. Korea needs war to justify it’s evil existance!
Artyom Reply:
June 4th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
USA needs war to justify it’s evil existance.
funny how that seems to fit just as well.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
@phillyguy
alright! I’m with you on that. To them that have ears, let them hear.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
A boat crossed an invisible line? Who cares?
4YRLIFE Reply:
June 4th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
KIM JOHN …. YOU SOUND LIKE A SLANT EYED YELLOW FACE AND A >>>>>>
June 4th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Hey all you religious psychos the fantasy superdeity you worship is not reading your posts and reserving you a three bedroom god condo in godville for ‘eternity’, sorry. All religious people are insane and completely self serving, pretending to be pious while all they really want is a REWARD. What crap, explain what you will do with trillions and quadrillions of ‘afterlife’ years when your corpse has long ago vanished? Oh yeah, the eyes Evolution took millions of years to perfect, connected to that brain, they no longer work so how will you see or experience anything? Oh yeah Uncle Bob will still be in his overalls, Sears brand that ‘never’ fade even after an ‘eternity’ of use. The christians especially want you to suffer horribly for ridiculing their stone age superstitions, they envison all kinds of torments as their ‘god’ gets me back but good. So sorry to disappoint, no such thing will ever happen.
duke of omaha Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
You don’t know, you’re still alive. Some people learn the hard way.
June 4th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Me thinks s korea is being told by its master–amerika what to do..
June 4th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
4YRLIFE,
you write like a racist neo-con flag waving halfwit.
enjoy the summer lads, it’s here
June 4th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
It would have been funnier if they all got out, to media coverage, and pissed on the American flag and said bring it.
June 4th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Looks like another “Gulf Of Tonkin” coming our way.
June 4th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
We are not in North Korea because that place is a worthless, cold and barren piece of dirt.
Now Iraq has oil. Why do you think Cheney and the gang are called capitalist?
June 4th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
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June 4th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
amerika forever at war…as the stupid sheeple bleet in one demonic voice…baaa baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabaaa baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbaaaaaabbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
June 5th, 2009 at 3:06 am
Check this idiot out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLLRTuCiiU
June 5th, 2009 at 9:32 am
I pray for you people who don’t believe that God is real. I can imagine what you will do or say at the time of your judgement before the Lord Jesus Christ. By then it will be too late to ask for forgiveness and then you will have to suffer the second death.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
But AlteredState… If that is true, then your god is unfortunately going to have to confront MY god.. because MY god does not punish people for not understand its existence. And definitely will not let your weak god do such a thing to me! =p
Joe Grotowski Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
No matter what any of us believe in (or not), we must all focus our energy spreading the truth.
There is no time for name calling, blame placing, or nit picking any more.
duke of omaha Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
There’s plenty of time Joe. That’s why we are all on this website.