South Korea claims to sink North torpedo boat in shootout.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | June 15, 1999| | Copyright

BANGKOK, Thailand _ The South Korean Defense Ministry said its warships sank one Communist North Korean torpedo boat and seriously damaged another Tuesday morning, marking a dangerous escalation of tensions between the hostile neighbors on the Korean Peninsula.

The incident came on the eighth day of a high-seas standoff between the two Koreas over contested fishing grounds off the peninsula's west coast.

The clash occurred when three North Korean torpedo boats fired at a South Korean patrol boat and eight southern warships responded by firing 100 rounds at ...

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