The South Korean navy recovered the body of a missing sailor on Monday after a day-long search near the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto maritime border with North Korea.
The sailor, a seaman apprentice, went missing on Sunday while serving aboard a naval vessel on patrol in the East Sea. After he failed to report for the morning watch, the navy launched a search operation involving around 10 ships and aircraft.
According to the navy, a patrol boat found the sailor’s body at about 5:58 a.m. on Monday, around 52 kilometres east of Geojin on South Korea’s east coast.
The body was recovered using a rigid inflatable boat at 6:43 a.m. and transferred to a frigate for transport to Donghae Naval Base.
The sailor had been aboard a naval vessel patrolling about 50 kilometres off Geojin in Gangwon Province, close to the Northern Limit Line, when he was reported missing. The vessel later returned
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