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South Korea rethinks line drawn in sea with North

SOUTH KOREA: Fresh from a summit designed to bring the two Koreas closer, South Korea’s president has touched off a furious debate about the line that divides them.

President Roh Moo-hyun was upbraided by former generals, lawmakers and the media for questioning last week whether a naval border drawn at the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War counted as a legal boundary between the two states, technically still at war.

The border off the west coast called the Northern Limit Line has gone from being a contested zone for crab fisherman into a region of deadly conflict.

It was set unilaterally by U.N.-led forces at the end of the Korean War and recognised since then by the South’s military as the de facto border. Pyongyang declared the line invalid in 1999.

“The NLL was originally drawn as the operational limit line for our military. So, even though some people now call it a territorial line, that is misleading,” Roh told reporters on Thursday.

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