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North Korea has reportedly stated that it will not stand by idle as South Korean vessels violate their border in the West Sea. KCNA (see below) stated that the North Korean navy “…will never remain an onlooker to the South Korean naval warships’ reckless military provocation…” and that “the behavior is an unpardonable and undisguised provocation”

I love that spirit of reconciliation!!! I guess we’ll just mark it down to another excuse that North Korea will give when it’s time to present its plutonium stockpile for removal.

KCNA Text: 

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

   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.