South Korea has made a brutal statement against North Korean aggression if “takes another provocative action”. The country’s Defense Minister made the hardline statements as he inspected new navy frigates on Tuesday. Both North and South Korea have publicly unveiled new naval developments in recent months.
According to Fars News Agency, Shin Won-sik addressed South Korean troops, saying: “If the enemy takes another provocative action, brutally bury them at sea.”
He was inspecting a new ship at the headquarters of the Navy’s Second Fleet in Pyeongtak, 60 kilometers south of Seoul.
46 South Korean sailors were killed by a North Korean torpedo in 2010. The missile struck the 1,200-ton-class Cheonan corvette near the western Northern Limit Line, the de facto inter-Korean sea border.
According to a Seoul-led multinational investigation, Pyongyang torpedoed the Cheonan warship. However the North has denied its involvement in the incident.
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North Korea is understood to have access to advanced sea missiles, and has since increased its military capacity. Most recently, it announced it had built a “tactical nuclear submarine” to strengthen its navy.
Kim Jon Un oversaw the unveiling ceremony of the vessel, named “Kim Kank-ak Hero”. He said its construction is part of the efforts for the nuclear armament of the Navy in the future.
South Korea’s Cheonan is the seventh warship to be commissioned as part of South Korea’s plans to replace its ageing fleet. The 122-meter frigate comes complete with a helicopter deck and anti-ship missiles, anti-submarine torpedoes and powerful underwater detection systems.
It has hull mounted and towed array sonar systems to better detect enemy submarines.
Last month North Korea vowed to deploy stronger armed forces and new weapons on its border with the South. This appeared to represent a pull back from a 2018 military accord designed to curb the risk of inadvertent clashes between two countries.
The so-called Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA), signed between the two Koreas, resulted from months of historic meetings between leader Kim Jong Un and then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
The two countries still remain technically at war.
The statement from Pyongyang came just a day after South Korea suspended part of the same inter-Korean agreement and resumed frontline aerial surveillance of North Korea in a protest over Pyongyang’s launch of a spy satellite.
Under the CMA, both countries agreed to “completely cease all hostile acts against each other” that are the source of military tension and conflict, by implementing military confidence-building measures in the air, land, and sea domains.