South Korea asks North to help search for missing navy sailor
- SEOUL: South Korea asked the North on Sunday (Jul 12) to help search for and return a missing navy sailor believed to have drifted across the de facto inter-Korean maritime border.
- The request follows reports that the sailor went missing on Sunday morning while a vessel was on patrol off South Korea's eastern coast near the Northern Limit Line (NLL).
- "A sailor aboard a South Korean navy vessel conducting a security mission in the East Sea went missing on the morning of Jul 12 and is believed to have drifted north of the NLL," Seoul's Unification Ministry said in a brief statement provided to AFP
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- SEOUL: South Korea asked the North on Sunday (Jul 12) to help search for and return a missing navy sailor believed to have drifted across the de facto inter-Korean maritime border.
- The request follows reports that the sailor went missing on Sunday morning while a vessel was on patrol off South Korea's eastern coast near the Northern Limit Line (NLL).
- "A sailor aboard a South Korean navy vessel conducting a security mission in the East Sea went missing on the morning of Jul 12 and is believed to have drifted north of the NLL," Seoul's Unification Ministry said in a brief statement provided to AFP
Sources: CNA