South Korea sinks torpedo boat in Yellow Sea battle From: The Independent - London | Date: June 16, 1999| Author: Lorien Holland in Peking in Peking | Copyright 1999 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

A TENSE stand-off in the Yellow Sea exploded yesterday morning when the South Korean navy sank a North Korean torpedo boat and damaged several other vessels from the famine-struck Communist nation.

The high-seas gun battle lasted only 10 minutes but shattered a fragile peace in the Yellow Sea, which has not seen a full-blown naval confrontation since the 1950-53 Korean War. As China, Japan and the United States called for calm, South Korea put its military on highest alert. North Korea...

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