No More Yeonpyeong Naval Battles

Navy Conducts Mobile Training Honoring the '6 Heroes' of the Second Yeonpyeong Sea Battle

The Navy has launched a maneuver exercise to honor the '6 heroes' who sacrificed their lives defending the West Sea during the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong.

Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong, the guided missile patrol boats (PKG) Yoon Young-ha (below) and Hwang Do-hyun (above), participating in the naval maneuver exercise conducted in the West Sea from June 27 to 29, are conducting anti-aircraft firing using their ship guns. About 10 vessels, including frigates and guided missile patrol boats (PKG), participated in this naval maneuver exercise. (Photo by the Navy)

On the 28th, the Navy announced that to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the victory in the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong, from the 27th to the 29th, the 2nd Fleet Command will conduct a maritime maneuver exercise in the West Sea involving 10 warships and 6 aircraft.

This exercise gained additional significance as two of the six heroes who died in the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong, the late Major Yoon Young-ha and the late Sergeant Hwang Do-hyun, were honored by the participation of the guided missile fast attack crafts (PKG) named Yoon Young-ha and Hwang Do-hyun. On the previous day, the Yoon Young-ha and Hwang Do-hyun ships formed a formation with the 2000-ton class frigates (FFG) Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Chungbuk, and conducted a simultaneous firing exercise targeting simulated targets.

The 2nd Fleet Command plans to continue intensive realistic training until the 29th, assuming provocations by North Korea along the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the West Sea, including naval gunfire, tactical maneuvers, and anti-submarine warfare exercises.

Lieutenant Bok Se-hyun, the combat information officer aboard the Yoon Young-ha ship, said, "I feel great pride and honor to be serving on the Yoon Young-ha, a hero of the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong," adding, "Inheriting the spirit of the invincible Navy, I will devote myself even more to training and steadfastly protect our seas."

The Second Battle of Yeonpyeong broke out on the morning of June 29, 2002, when two North Korean patrol boats crossed the NLL and launched a surprise attack on our Navy's Chamsuri-357 patrol boat. During the engagement, the North Korean forces suffered 30 casualties, and although the attacking patrol boats retreated engulfed in flames, our Navy also suffered losses, with the Chamsuri-357 patrol boat sunk and six personnel, including Commander Major Yoon Young-ha, killed in action.

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