Category: DMZ

President Moon Designates Yellow Sea Defense Day; Doubles Down on Aircraft Carrier Development

| March 27, 2021

Besides the US-ROK joint exercise that the North Koreans are unhappy about, this designation by President Moon might also be why the North Koreans conducted their recent missile test:

President Moon Jae-in delivers a speech during an annual memorial ceremony for South Korean soldiers killed in three major clashes with North Korea in the Yellow Sea, including the Cheonan incident, at the Navy’s 2nd Fleet Command in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, on March 26, 2021. Forty-six South Korean sailors were killed in the torpedoing of the warship Cheonan by an infiltrating North Korean submarine within South Korean territorial waters in the Yellow Sea on March 26, 2010. (Yonhap)

The government designated the fourth Friday in March as the Yellow Sea Defense Day to remember those who were killed in waters off the west coast during three battles against North Korea’s provocations in 2002 and 2010.

This year marks the 11th anniversary of two of the three incidents — North Korea’s deadly sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan on March 26, 2010, and the communist nation’s artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, a front-line island in the Yellow Sea, on Nov. 23, 2010.

Moon said that the government has worked hard to possess “overwhelming” military strength to preserve and create peace. 

“Not a single soldier has been injured or killed in the past four years in the Yellow Sea due to armed clashes or military provocations. This is proof that a powerful force creates peace,” he said.

The president also highlighted the government’s plan to deploy a light aircraft carrier by 2033 produced by South Korean technology and deploy a 3,000-ton submarine program, which has been in development since 2018, by 2024.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but I was a bit surprised that the Moon administration actually made this designation considering their default appeasement policy towards North Korea. Plus many in the Korean left still believe that North Korea did not sink the Cheonan.

By the way there has been far more incidents than just the sinking of the Cheonan and the Yeonpyeong Island shelling in the Yellow Sea. The 2002 West Sea Naval Battle was another major deadly clash in these waters:

https://www.rokdrop.net/2012/06/dmz-flashpoints-the-2002-west-sea-naval-battle/

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