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English: Map of the shelling of Yeonpyeong, language neutral version. Yeonpyeong Island; Baengnyeong Island; Daecheong Myeon; Jung-gu (Incheon Intl. Airport) Seoul; Incheon; A. Northern Limit Line (NLL, the border claimed by South Korea since 1953) B. Military Demarcation Line (the border claimed by North Korea since 1999)
The other inhabited island is Soyeonpyeongdo ("Small Yeonpyeong Island") with a small population and an area of 0.24 km 2 (0.093 sq mi). Several other small islands comprise the rest of the group. [1] The island group constitutes Yeonpyeong-myeon, a subdivision of Ongjin County, Incheon, South Korea. Yeonpyeong Island is known for its crab ...
November 23, 2010: North Korea fired artillery at South Korea's Greater Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea and the Republic of Korea Armed Forces returned fire. Two South Korean marines and two South Korean civilians were killed, six were seriously wounded, and ten were treated for minor injuries. About seventy South Korean houses were destroyed.
As Kim Jeoung-hee huddled in a bomb shelter on South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, scared and confused with around 250 other people, memories flooded back of the day in 2010 when North Korean troops ...
The scare came after North Korea fired off more than 200 shells a few miles from the island, and still more over the weekend, in what it described as mi North Korea stokes fear, uncertainty for ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired more than 200 artillery rounds on Friday near a disputed maritime border with South Korea in another escalation of tension between the rivals and prompting the ...
Yeonpyeong Island 2. Baengnyeong Island 3. Daecheong Island. In 1999, North Korea drew up their own line, the "West Sea Military Demarcation Line" which claims a maritime boundary farther south that encompasses valuable fishing grounds (though it skirts around South Korean-held islands such as Yeonpyeong). This claim is not accepted by either ...
The Battle of Yeongpyeong (or Second Battle of Yeonpyeong) (Korean: 제2 연평해전; RR: Je I Yeonpyeong Haejeon) was a confrontation at sea between North Korean and South Korean patrol boats along a disputed maritime boundary near Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea in 2002. This followed a similar confrontation in 1999.