Anniv. of commemoration day for fallen naval heroes

Anniv. of commemoration day for fallen naval heroes

President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a ceremony at a national cemetery in Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, on March 24, 2023, to mark the eighth 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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