Category: DMZ

Tweet of the Day: The Blue House Raid

| October 23, 2020

You can also read my prior posting about the Blue House Raid at the below link:

https://www.rokdrop.net/2015/07/dmz-flashpoints-the-1968-blue-house-raid/

DMZ Tours at Panmunjom May Restart Soon

| September 30, 2020

For those stationed in Korea that have not been able to take this tour yet because of COVID, you may soon have your chance:

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un greets President Donald Trump on the North Korean side of the Joint Security Area, June 30, 2019, in this photo from the Korean Central News Agency.

 Tours to the truce village that straddles the border with North Korea, which have been suspended for about a year due to concerns about African swine fever and the coronavirus, may resume soon, the U.S.-led United Nations Command said Monday.

Stars & Stripes

You can read more at the link.

North Korea Warns South About Violating the Northern Limit Line

| September 28, 2020

North Korea after giving a rare apology is now back to normal warning the ROK to stop violating the NLL. This is standard stuff for the North Koreans who have their own version of the NLL you can see below in Red:

The current NLL is depicted with the Blue line and North Korea’s claimed NLL is depicted with the Red line.

North Korea warned the South on Sunday to stop violating the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto inter-Korean maritime border in the Yellow Sea, as the search continues for the body of a South Korean fisheries official shot last Tuesday.    
   
South Korea’s Navy and Coast Guard however said that they have been searching for the body of the 47-year-old official surnamed Lee — who was shot and killed by North Korean soldiers last Tuesday after he mysteriously went missing the previous day — in waters south of the NLL.    
   
Pyongyang’s warning came two days after an apology from North Korea Friday claiming that the man’s body had been lost at sea after he was shot, rather than burned, as initially reported by the South’s military.    
   
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported in an English-language dispatch Sunday, “We can never overlook any intrusion into our territorial waters and we seriously warn the south side against it.”  
   
The North urged South Korean authorities to “immediately halt the intrusion across the military demarcation line in the west sea that may lead to escalation of tensions.”    
   
The North may be referring to the West Sea military demarcation line (MDL), a line south of the NLL in the Yellow Sea that Pyongyang unilaterally declared in 1999. North Korean has long disputed the NLL, which was set by the United Nations Command (UNC) in 1953 after the three-year Korean War ended in a ceasefire. 

Joong Ang Ilbo

You can read more at the link.