{"id":1366396,"date":"2022-03-09T08:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T13:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1366396"},"modified":"2022-03-09T08:21:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T13:21:26","slug":"south-korea-fires-on-north-korean-boat-for-crossing-sea-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-korea-fires-on-north-korean-boat-for-crossing-sea-border\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Fires on North Korean Boat for Crossing Sea Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-korea-fires-on-north-korean-boat-for-crossing-sea-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1366396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u200bA South Korean naval ship fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat that crossed into contested waters west of the Korean Peninsula, according to a report on Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The patrol boat retreated after the South Korean vessel opened fire, the <a href=\"http:\/\/\u200bhttps:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/north-korean-ships-cross-into-souths-waters-in-contested-area-11646734650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported, citing Seoul\u2019s military.\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The South Koreans then seized a second ship with seven North Koreans on board, all but one of whom were wearing military uniforms. <\/p>\n<p>The encounter occurred near the \u200bwestern sea boundary known at the Northern Limit Line, an area that has seen\u00a0a number of clashes over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean military said the North Koreans had claimed under questioning that they were not intending to defect and their ship had crossed the Northern Limit Line by accident, according to the Journal. <\/p>\n<p>The boundary was established following the 1953 armistice that halted hostilities in the Korean War. Pyongyang has objected to the position of the line in the past, saying it is too far north. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/south-north-korea-tensions-01.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/south-north-korea-tensions-01.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Northern Limit Line\" class=\"wp-image-21451260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/south-north-korea-tensions-01.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/south-north-korea-tensions-01.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/south-north-korea-tensions-01.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The boundary was established following the 1953 armistice between the two nations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seoul\u2019s policy upon apprehending North Korean boats that drift south of the maritime border is to return the occupants to Pyongyang\u2019s territory unless they express a wish to defect. <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s incident happened on the eve of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/23\/south-koreas-presidential-race-puts-misogyny-in-spotlight\/\">South Korea\u2019s presidential election<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA South Korean naval ship fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat that crossed into contested waters west of the Korean Peninsula, according to a report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}