South Korea's Navy conducted sea drills in the country's eastern and southern waters Monday on the eighth anniversary of a deadly torpedo attack by North Korea, a defense official said.
More than 10 warships were mobilized, along with aircraft, with exercises in the Yellow Sea canceled due to bad weather.
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The Navy staged the exercise to mark the anniversary of the Cheonan corvette sinking. It went down near the Northern Limit Line, the de-facto maritime border between the two Koreas, on March 26, 2010, killing 46 sailors. After an international probe, the South concluded that the sinking was caused by a North Korean submarine attack.
This year, however, the Navy did not issue a press release on the practice amid a peace mood on the peninsula.
The Second Fleet Command, which is in charge of defending the western waters, plans to hold a ceremony later in the day to commemorate the victims.(Yonhap)
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