Korean People’s Army General Staff on the 27th in Pyongyang announced seven measures to deal with South Korea on the “Tian An” alert No. sinking ship to take sanctions against the DPRK.
Korean Central News Agency reported the same day, this seven measures include: the total abolition of the bilateral economic cooperation and exchange of military protection measures provided by the current study will begin closing the East, West Coast regional military communications and liaison clinics and the Kaesong Industrial Park, land access issues; South Korea’s anti-DPRK psychological warfare will be activities for merciless fight back; both sides to prevent accidental conflicts in western waters of the agreement will fail and this will interrupt the use of international marine VHF radio dialogue machine, and immediately close the opening to deal with emergencies the communication line; for violations of (North Korea announced) sea waters west of the line of action, will be on the spot to counterattack; ban South Korean ships, aircraft and other modes of transport through North Korea‘s territorial waters, airspace and territorial; against South Korean authorities to enter the Korean territory; As long as South Korea does not accept the DPRK National Defense Commission inspection team to South Korea verification “Tian” sinking ship of evidence, the DPRK will continue to expose fraud in Korea.
Prior to that, for South Korea to take sanctions against the DPRK, the DPRK the peaceful reunification of the Committee on the 25th announced the eight anti-measures, including full cut off inter-Korean relations during the administration of the current government in South Korea suspended all dialogue and contact between the authorities and so.
South Korea, “Tian An” alert No. ship on March 26 evening in the western waters of Korea due to an explosion and sank the ship with only 58 104 soldiers survived. South Korea, “Tian An” No. 20 joint military-civilian mission official survey results released, “said Tian,” ship was subjected to “the implementation of the Korean mini-submarine torpedo attack” and sink. DPRK National Defense Commission, refused to accept this conclusion, and verification of evidence required to send a delegation to Korea, but that request was rejected South Korea.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on the 24th made a speech, demanding that North Korea would “Tian An” incident apologized and said it would ban North Korean ships entered South Korean territorial waters, interruption of inter-Korean economic cooperation and exchanges, and after consultation with the States concerned to the incident to the United Nations UN Security Council. South Korea’s Unification Ministry and other related departments on the same day also announced sanctions against the DPRK.
