South Korea asks the North to help search for missing sailor

South Korea asked North Korea on Sunday 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 Sunday morning while a vessel was on patrol off South Korea’s eastern coast near the Northern Limit Line. “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 said in a brief statement, referring to…