0 shelling across the northern limit line(NLL) between north korea south korea
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recently as raised a lot of questions as to just what the north koreans are doing
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why they carried out this act at this particular time one of the elements to
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that is really to better understand what is the northern limit line
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why isn't there a part of the north koreans do this
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and at the end of the korean war discovers disturbing discussed
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there's a general agreement on where the DMZ the demilitarized zone would go
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between the two koreas
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however there was no grievance on where the maritime border would go on the west
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the united nations unilaterally drew the northern limit line
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putting it within a three nautical miles of the north korean coast which is
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standard uh... territory at the time
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pete also placed five islands just south of the NLL
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under south korean are under UN control of the time
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and in many ways that boxed in the north koreans and it protected the southern
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the north koreans never recognized to be nl elon and by the late nineteen fifties
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they were already complaining about it and they were suggesting the creation of
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what they call the MDL the military demarcation line
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this would have been a line that matches more along the twelve nautical miles and
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runs fairly diagonally between north korea and south korea in the west st
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for the north koreans this would give them access
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to page you there'd southern deep water port it would also give them access to
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critical crab fishing grounds in the area
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for the south koreans however the shape of the MDL from their perspective
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would put inchon at risk and south korea in the united nations refused to change
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as the cold war was drawing to a close the north koreans were looking at ways
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to modify and change their economic structure they knew they couldn't be
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fully reliant upon the chinese upon the soviets or the russians after that point
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and these are looking into the idea of special economic zones of trying to
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increase trade ports became very important for them and they started
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looking again at page you and they started looking again at the northern
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by the end of the nineteen nineties and the firm establishment of kim jong il as
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the new leader of north korea
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the northern limit line became a very hot spot area once again
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they word two incidents at the end of ninety nine in the beginning of the two
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thousand of shelling between the two koreas on merit and fight which had ship
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tensions began to rise along that line the north korean started calling for
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renegotiation of the line and demanding that to the south koreans are back away
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from their positions along that line
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when we look at north korea's broad strategic behavior in trying to force
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negotiations over critical issues we see them
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posturing we see them raising prices so they can step back from them in return
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talks and for negotiations
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but as we've seen in the issues of ministries nuclear weapons and missiles
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they've reached a point where it's very hard now to create a crisis because
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they've already tested nuclear weapons
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they party launch long-range missiles
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in general any redline real or imagined has already been crossed we're seeing
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to be able to draw attention span NLL_ so
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shelling into the water doesn't do it missile tests doesn't do it to shooting
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between both doesn't necessarily do it
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even the incident with each other
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didn't seem to bring this nl alicia back under the table
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there now shelling south grand island's the question is how far to the north
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koreans have to go before the crisis either draws attention in the way they
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or forces a response from the south koreans and ultimately from the united
