South Korea asks North to help search for missing navy sailor

SEOUL – South Korea asked the North on July 12 to help search for and return a missing navy sailor believed to have drifted across the de facto inter-Korean maritime border. The request follows reports that the sailor went missing on the morning of July 12 while a vessel was on patrol off South Korea’s eastern coast near the Northern Limit Line (NLL). “A sailor aboard a South Korean navy vessel conducting a security mission in the East Sea went missing on the morning of July 12 and is believed to have drifted north of the NLL,” Seoul’s Unification Ministry…