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KPA Will Never Remain Onlooker to Military Provocations of S. Korean Warships

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- A report of the Navy Command of the Korean People's Army was issued on Sunday in connection with the infiltration of warships into the territorial waters of the north side in the West Sea of Korea by the warmongers of the south Korean forces.
    According to the report, they keep perpetrating such very dangerous and grave military provocations as infiltrating warships into the territorial waters of the north side in the West Sea of Korea.
    At around 06:50 on Oct. 18 they infiltrated four warships deep into the territorial waters of the north side southeast of Ssanggyo-ri of Kangryong County, South Hwanghae Province. This was followed by the intrusion of 30 guard ships, clippers and rubber boats on the same day.
    They sent into those waters seven warships on Oct. 14 and 13 warships on Oct. 17 in a desperate bid to allegedly "defend the northern limit line".
    When the north side demanded the immediate withdrawal of the warships over international maritime ultra-short wave walkie-talkie according to the north-south agreement, the south Korean forces responded to it in a provocative manner, crying: It is our waters. Don't make far-fetched assertion.
    The south Korean military authorities are sadly mistaken if they think they can "defend" the illegal "northern limit line" in such manner now that the north and the south agreed to set up "a special area for peace and cooperation in the West Sea" and fix waters for joint fishing and peaceful waters.
    Their behavior is an unpardonable and undisguised provocation to the "Declaration for the Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity", and it is a product of their political and strategic attempt to drive the north-south relations to the phase of confrontation again.
    The KPA Navy will never remain an onlooker to the south Korean naval warships' reckless military provocations as intruding into the inviolable territorial waters of the north side.
    The south Korean military authorities had better stop acting rashly.