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184091
Tue, 05/24/2011 - 13:28
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S. Korea marks 1st anniversary of penalties by slamming N. Korea
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- Marking the first anniversary of a raft of punitive measures against North Korea, South Korea called Tuesday on the communist state to apologize for sinking a warship last year, blaming Pyongyang for plunging the cross-border relations into peril.
In a briefing, foreign ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae also pressed Pyongyang to take responsibility for an artillery clash last November that left four people dead on a South Korean border island.
Following the sinking of the Cheonan and the deaths of 46 of its crew members in March last year, Seoul pointed at Pyongyang as the culprit, citing a multinational investigation, and announced a raft of actions that included the suspension of all cross-border trade.
The cash-strapped North still denies it had any role in the sinking that marked one of the worst naval disasters in the South Korean history. The sinking, which the South says was caused by a North Korean submarine that had been lurking in the Yellow Sea, came amid the absence of dialogue between the countries that remain technically at war after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce.
In a briefing, foreign ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae also pressed Pyongyang to take responsibility for an artillery clash last November that left four people dead on a South Korean border island.
Following the sinking of the Cheonan and the deaths of 46 of its crew members in March last year, Seoul pointed at Pyongyang as the culprit, citing a multinational investigation, and announced a raft of actions that included the suspension of all cross-border trade.
The cash-strapped North still denies it had any role in the sinking that marked one of the worst naval disasters in the South Korean history. The sinking, which the South says was caused by a North Korean submarine that had been lurking in the Yellow Sea, came amid the absence of dialogue between the countries that remain technically at war after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce.
