Chʾŏnan

…a South Korean warship, the Ch’ŏnan (Cheonan), exploded and sank in the waters of the Yellow Sea near Paengnyŏng (Baengnyeong) Island, close to the maritime border with North Korea. An international team of investigators concluded in May that the explosion had been caused by a torpedo fired from a North…

…a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, exploded and sank in the waters of the Yellow Sea near Baengnyeong Island, close to the maritime border with North Korea. The incident’s proximity to the border prompted the South Korean military to be placed on alert. A large-scale rescue operation saved 58 of…

…was no resolution to the Cheonan incident, and tensions continued to be high. In late November, as South Korea was conducting a military exercise off the country’s northwestern coast, the North Korean military bombarded the South Korean border island of Yeonpyeong—the scene of offshore naval skirmishes in 1999 and 2002—with…