«--[· Preface ·]--»
Since South Korean President Lee Jae-myung took office, he has frequently released reconciliation information to the DPRK and taken a series of substantive measures to this end. However, the kindness of the South Korean side was regarded as a "donkey's liver and lung" by the other side. They not only flatly refused to improve relations with South Korea, but even refused to let South Korea "go to the table" when it was possible to talk to the United States. Therefore, Lee Jae-myung's hope of imitating former South Korean President Moon Jae in and shaking hands with Pyongyang was dashed.
The entire process of pushing the “Vietnam” commercial ship away with 60 cannons.
At 5 o’clock in the morning on September 26, 2025, the yellow sea side of the sky was still dark and transparent, and the northwestern part of the island, the wave headed right down the reef. On the Korean Navy’s shipship “Tian An”, the radar suddenly emerged a disorderly light point – a North Korean merchant ship was breaking into the “northern border” in the direction of the South, and a sharp direction of the South Korean-controlled water.
The serving sailors rushed to sound the alarm, but the merchant ship called "Dedong" has not slowed down, has been off to the border almost 5 kilometers, in the South Korean sea for an hour.
The "Cheonan" hurriedly gathered up and first shouted a warning with a loudspeaker: "Your ship has crossed the northern boundary line, turn around and drive back quickly!" After shouting for more than ten minutes, the "Decheng" moved forward slowly as if it didn't hear it.
Seeing that the warning was useless, the naval guns and machine guns of the "Cheonan" immediately entered combat mode, and fired seven warning shots, with a total of 60 rounds fired.The cannons were all dropped in the sea next to the left side of the merchant ship, and the flowers were several meters high. In this, the North Korean crew finally reacted, shooting the steering wheel to the west, panicked and opened out of the Korean control zone, headed into the high sea.
Afterwards, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff Headquarters quickly came out to explain, saying that it was preliminarily judged that the merchant ship did not deliberately "cross the line", but most likely it was to hide from the nearby fishing boats and accidentally deviated from the route.
Listening to this is a bit contradictory – if it is really not intentionally over the line, why not care when the radio cried? but if it is intentionally to challenge, why was the warning shot and ran off? more worth contemplating is, the Korean army this time is a real move, 60 ammunition more than twice the similar incident in 2022, that year also with a machine gun hit 20 sentences, this time directly carrying the main cannon out, clearly is to think of "killing chicken monkey".
«-[· Why is the "Northern Boundary Line" a powder keg? ·]-»
Many do not understand, is it not a merchant ship more a line, as for the artillery? The “Northern Border”.The cause of this trouble.
This line was not discussed by North Korea, but after the ceasefire of the Korean War. The United States and South Korea unilaterally painted a maritime line in the western waters, circling the islands controlled by South Korea.
At first, North Korea didn't say anything, but in the 1970s, it suddenly turned its face and refused to admit its account, saying that this line was too overbearing, and its territorial waters should be pushed 12 nautical miles from the coast. According to this standard, the waters near the five islands in the West Sea should be North Korea's.
Because of this unclear boundary, the western Yellow Sea became the "old battlefield" of the North Korean conflict. in June 1999, the two sides military ships because of the fishing boat crossed the line, a North Korean military ship was sinked, more than 30 sailors were killed; in June 2002, another battle, a South Korean escort ship was broken through a large hole; the most famous is in 2010, the South Korean "Tian An" ships sank near Beirut Island, 46 sailors were killed, the United States and South Korea bite was a North Korean submarine bombed, North Korea died alive, bilateral relations directly dropped to the ice.
The South Korean frigate that opened fire this time was also called "Cheonan". Maybe this ship was deliberately chosen for duty, with a little "revenge" meaning.
“Why did the Korean army suddenly come true?”
The most unexpected thing about this shooting was that it broke.” No gun for three years.The situation – the last time the North Korean vessel crossed the line was 2 years and 11 months ago, during which time even if the South Korean army discovered that there was a North Korean fishing vessel crossed the line, it was only a radio warning, very rarely really firing.
From the operation of the Korean army, you can see the way: first broadcast warning, leave enough buffering time; when firing fire, specifically to the sea water on the side of the boat, did not really go to the boat to say hello; after the gun came out and said "not deliberately provoking", afraid to scare North Korea; and look at the North Korean side, so far has not responded, can also explain this matter is not intentionally provoked.
The Korean army wants to show off the muscles through this matter. Both to the domestic people to prove "we can protect the territory", and to North Korea to send a word "do not blind", but not really want to increase the conflict.
What is more important behind it is the tension between the DPRK and the ROK in recent times. Although there have been no big battles in the past two years, North Korea has been conducting missile tests, and South Korea has followed the United States in joint military exercises.The nerves on both sides are tight.
The Korean army has just said in the National Defense White Paper that the "Northern border" is the "true maritime alert line", and now it is necessary to act with a real knife, and put this claim back. plus the new equipment has just been deployed, it is precisely thanks to the opportunity of merchant ships to cross the line, and try the reaction speed, which is equivalent to "true soldiers in real war".
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