DPRK warns of military actions to defend sea demarkation line
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DPRK warns of military actions to defend sea demarkation line
PYONGYANG, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Friday it would take “merciless military actions” to defend its sea demarkation line with South Korea.
The DPRK put forward four principles and requirements related to the recent naval clash with South Korea off the west coast of the Korean Peninsular, official news agency KCNA reported.
According to a notice sent by the head of the DPRK delegation to the North-South General-Level Military Talks, South Korea “must apologize” for orchestrating the incident and putting it into practice and promptly punish the prime movers.
The other three points were: South Korea must give up the “Northern Limit Line (NLL)”; the DPRK will take “merciless military measures” to defend the extension of the Military Demarkation Line in waters set by the Korean People’s Army; and South Korea “will be held fully accountable for having disturbed the reconciliation reconciliation and unity of the nation and hamstrung the efforts to achieve peace and unification.”
DPRK and South Korea’s naval boats exchanged fires off west coast of the Korean Peninsula Tuesday morning. The two sides blamed each other for the clash. The DPRK and South Korea clashed near the area twice previously, in 1999 and 2002.
The DPRK has not accepted the NLL which was fixed unilaterally by the U.S.-led United Nations Command after the 1950-1953 Korean War, but South Korea holds the NLL as the de-facto western inter-Korean border.
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