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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)
The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong (Korean: 연평도 포격전) was an artillery engagement between the North Korean military and South Korean forces stationed on Yeonpyeong Island on 23 November 2010. [2]
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 ...
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. These islands are popular destinations for tourism.
Sri Lankans Siyam Mohamed and MJ Nimshan Dananjaya hadn't realised how close South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island is to North Korea when they arrived in November to work catching crabs. They had a rude ...
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.
Kim gave orders to strengthen military readiness in the waters north of Yeonpyeong Island and to the west of the Korean peninsula, in the region of the NLL, KCNA said.