This file photo, provided by the Navy on Dec. 23, 2023, shows the ROKS Cheonan frigate. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy held a remembrance ceremony Tuesday for sailors who were killed during the 2010 sinking of the Cheonan corvette by a North Korean torpedo attack in the Yellow Sea.
The 1,200-ton warship sank near the western Northern Limit Line (NLL), a de facto inter-Korean sea border, in March 2010, after a North Korean midget submarine fired a torpedo at it. The attack killed 46 sailors, while 55 others were rescued.
The ceremony took place on the 14th anniversary of the attack at the 2nd Fleet in Pyeongtaek, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, attended by bereaved family members and sailors who survived the incident, according to the Navy.
The participants toured the salvaged warship on display at the unit, as well as the new ROKS Cheonan frigate, which entered into service last year.
Commander Park Yeon-soo, the commanding officer of the frigate who served on the previous Cheonan at the time of the attack, vowed to protect the maritime border without fault.
“(I) will perfectly defend the NLL in the Yellow Sea, with the mindset of heading into the front lines with all my comrades of the Cheonan,” Park said at the ceremony, according to the Navy.
(Yonhap)
