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The main island of the group is Daeyeonpyeongdo ("Big Yeonpyeong Island"), also referred to simply as Yeonpyeong Island, with an area of 7.01 km 2 (2.71 sq mi) and a population of around 1,300. [ 1 ] The principal population center is Yeonpyeong-ri, where the island's ferry port is located.
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)
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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.
The Battle of Yeonpyeong (or First Battle of Yeonpyeong) (Korean: 제1 연평해전; RR: Je Il Yeonpyeong Haejeon) took place between the navies of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) on 15 June 1999, off the island of Yeonpyeong.
It consists of a group of islands in the Yellow Sea (West Sea). Four of the islands, Yeonpyeong Island, Baengnyeong, Daecheong, and Socheong Islands, are very near the Northern Limit Line. They are close to the Ongjin Peninsula of South Hwanghae Province in North Korea, at a considerable distance from the nearest part of the South Korean mainland.
North/South Korea Maritime Border Area in the Yellow (West) Sea (Sources: Map of Maritime Boundaries compiled by Beckee Morrison based on North Korean MDL declaration as reported in "Koreas' North rejects maritime border with South in West Sea," Central Broadcasting Station, September 2, 1999; South Korean Defense Department reconstruction in ...
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.