The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday accused South Korean battleships of 28 intrusions this month into its western waters.

"The South Korean military authorities should ponder over the serious consequences to be entailed by the military tension mounting in the West Sea of Korea (the Yellow Sea) and bring the situation under control without delay," said a spokesman for the Navy Command of the Korean People's Army.

Each time the intrusion happened, the DPRK navy sent warning messages to the intruders and demanded them to leave the area at once, said the spokesman.

But the South side said it "does not recognize those waters," and instead accused Pyongyang of intrusion, the spokesman said.

The spokesman said the South Korean military authorities are "unable to look ahead even a bit" by preserving the "illegal" "northern limit line" and pushing the situation to the danger line.

"As the two sides stand in confrontation with each other with arms, any foul provocative behavior from one side against the other is bound to touch off resentment and any act going beyond its limit is bound to spark a skirmish," said the spokesman, adding that this would play into the hands of "the US imperialist warmongers."

The so-called "northern limit line" was unilaterally drawn by the United States and South Korea in the Yellow Sea after the Korean War, but the DPRK refused to accept that line and drew another one.

As a result, battleships and boats of the two sides have had frequent skirmishes in this disputed waters.

The two sides came to an agreement last June on preventing such incidents, but the issue of the "north limit line" remains unsettled.

Source: Xinhua