Picture of the Day: Decommissioning the Pyeongtaek

A ceremony to decommission the 2,400-ton rescue ship Pyeongtaek is held at the military port of Jinhae, 410 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Dec. 28, 2016. The ship served for 20 years after the South Korean navy took it over from the U.S. navy in 1997. The ship was mobilized into preventing the spread of a massive oil leak from a freighter on waters off the western county island of Taean in 2007 and salvaging the naval ship the Cheonan sunken by a North Korean torpedo attack in 2010. The ship will be delivered to its sister city of Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers southwest of Seoul, for security exhibition. (Yonhap)