MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - South...
The South Korean news agency quoted on Thursday an unidentified military official as saying that the Choi Young missile destroyer will join another destroyer in patrols near the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a de facto boundary between the two Koreas.
The 4,500-ton Choi Young was commissioned by the South Korean Navy in 2008. It is armed with a 127-mm gun, anti-ship missiles and torpedoes.
A North Korean patrol vessel crossed on Tuesday the disputed sea border, prompting the South to fire warning shots. According to the South Korean Navy, the communist state"s boat, which fired back, "suffered considerable damage," but no casualties were reported on either side.
This was the first clash in seven years along the demarcation line set unilaterally by the U.S.-led UN forces after the Korean War ended in 1953.
Pyongyang does not recognize the NLL, and the two Koreas are technically still at war as they have not signed a peace treaty.