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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

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

North Korea threatens "merciless" attacks against South Korea over its planned live-fire drills near the disputed Northern Limit Line.
2012-02-19

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

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

Eight people are missing and one dies as a fishing boat sinks while searching for the South Korean "Cheonan" warship that sank last week near the Northern Limit Line border with North Korea.
2010-04-3

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 Korean vessels fire again across the Northern Limit Line maritime boundary with South Korea.
2010-01-28

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