On a pitch-black stormy night, a small fishing boat appeared near the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the disputed maritime boundary between North and South Korea in the Yellow Sea.
Around midnight on May 6, South Korea’s military detected the boat heading toward the NLL from the North Korean side, according to ChannelA, a South Korean media.
As soon as it crossed the boundary line and entered the South, a navy patrol boat was mobilized to intercept it.
Nine North Koreans were on board, including two children.
“We didn’t drift here by mistake; it was by design,” they said to the Korean maritime police during an interrogation….