SCMP: South denies it sent warships into N.Korea waters [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST   KOREA South denies it sent warships into N.Korea waters REUTERS in Seoul      Updated at 9.59am: South Korea denied on Monday a North Korean report saying Seoul had tried to stoke tensions between the bitterly divided neighbours by infiltrating two warships into the North's territorial waters. Overnight, the North Korean navy said the South had sent the two combat vessels across the disputed maritime border off the North Korean coast not far from where the two navies clashed on June 29 with loss of life on both sides. ''We warn that the infiltration of the combat warships is a dangerous act which may spark a new armed clash,'' the North Korean navy said in statement said published late on Sunday by the North's official KCNA news agency. ''The provocation in the wake of the armed clash on June 29 is a deliberate move to render the situation in the waters more strained,'' Pyongyang's navy command said. But the South Korean navy denied the accusation. ''What the North said is totally fabricated and groundless,'' it said in a statement. It said there was a routine South Korean naval exercise on Sunday but the warships stayed well inside South Korean waters, below a disputed maritime border line. The South Korean navy warned the North not to enter its waters and said the North would be taught a lesson and bear responsibility for any consequences. On Sunday, the South Korean Defence Ministry outlined its investigation into the June 29 clash, in which four South Korean sailors were killed and 19 wounded. One sailor is missing. An unknown number of North Korean sailors died. The ministry said the North had repeatedly probed the South's defences in the weeks leading up to the clash. --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================

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