Anniv. of commemoration day for fallen naval heroes

Anniv. of commemoration day for fallen naval heroes

Leaders of South Korea's major political parties, including Kwon Young-se (3rd from L), chief of the ruling People Power Party's emergency leadership committee, and Lee Jae-myung (4th from L), leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, salute the national flag during a ceremony at a national cemetery in the central city of Daejeon on March 28, 2025, to mark the 10th anniversary of the commemoration day for 55 troops who died in three major clashes with North Korea in the West Sea, comprising an inter-Korean naval skirmish in 2002, North Korea's torpedo attack on the corvette Cheonan in 2010 and its shelling of the border island of Yeonpyeong in the same year. Since 2016, the government has designated the fourth Friday of March as the commemoration day, known as the West Sea Defense Day. (Yonhap)

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