But in the absence of a full peace agreement, the Northern Limit Line remains in place.
Command establishing the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a demarcation on the Yellow Sea designed to avert clashes at sea.
The disputed border, known as the Northern Limit Line, has been the site of several deadly naval clashes between the Koreas.
The island is just south of the Northern Limit Line, the U.N.
That suggests people believe the crisis will be defused, as happened after previous flare-ups on the UN-mandated Northern Limit Line, the disputed maritime border.
Yeonpyeong is located just south of the Northern Limit Line, the line drawn in 1953 by the United Nations just after the Korean War.
The confrontation had been building for a week when Northern crab-fishing boats began to move south of the informal maritime border called the Northern Limit Line.
On June 16th, North Korean fishing boats once again moved up to the disputed buffer zone marked by the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea off the west coast but this time they and North Korea's navy kept their distance.
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Additional steps can be taken to reinforce the North-South maritime border west of the peninsula, the Northern Limit Line that was the site of both armed clashes in 2010, and the general state of readiness for a range of provocations.
Few analysts expect any compromise on the Northern Limit Line in the near future, given the overall deterioration in relations and the complex negotiations that would be necessary to find an alternative to what was meant to be a temporary solution nearly 60 years ago.
This belief in escalation dominance can be seen in the recent actions of an emboldened -- and some would say desperate -- North Korea, which has resorted to limited surprise uses of military force, first sinking a South Korean naval vessel and then shelling an island near the disputed maritime Northern Limit Line.
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