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Former South Korean national security director Suh Hoon is arrested on charges of tampering with evidence related to the killing of a Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official by North Korean agents near the Northern Limit Line in September 2020.
2022-12-3

The South Korean defense ministry alleges that North Korean officials killed and cremated an official from the South Korean fisheries ministry who disappeared from a ship conducting maritime patrol activities along the Northern Limit Line on September 21 and entered North Korean territory by the following afternoon.
2020-09-23

South Korea fires warning shots after a North Korean patrol boat and a fishing boat cross the disputed west coast Northern Limit Line. The two vessels retreated.
2016-05-27

The South Korean Navy fires warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat after it crossed the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea and entered South Korean-controlled waters. As of 2016, North Korea refuses to recognize the so-called Northern Limit Line, that was drawn up at the end of the Korean War.
2016-02-8

South Korean troops mistakenly fire on a Chinese passenger plane as it flies near the disputed Northern Limit Line on the border with North Korea; there are no casualties.
2011-06-18

The United States Navy and South Korean Navy hold exercises in the waters west of the Korean Peninsula despite warnings from North Korea.
2010-11-28

South Korea begins a huge anti-submarine exercise in the Yellow Sea, near the disputed maritime border, in what it sees as a show of strength against North Korea and "to be fully prepared for combat"; North Korea disapproves of the exercise.
2010-08-5

A South Korean Navy ship named the Cheonan, carrying more than 100 personnel sinks near the Northern Limit Line in waters off the country's west coast near North Korea.
2010-03-26

North Korea fires artillery towards South Korean territory at the Northern Limit Line for a third consecutive day.
2010-01-29

North Korea fires artillery shots into the sea near the disputed Northern Limit Line maritime border, with South Korea returning fire.
2010-01-27