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![Rep. Eom Tae-young of the People Power Party revealed photos on May 24, 2025 of Chinese structures unilaterally installed in the temporary measures zone of the West Sea, where the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of Korea and China overlap. From left to right: Sunran No. 1 (2018), Sunran No. 2 (2024), and a drilling rig-style management facility (2022). [REP. EOM TAE-YOUNG]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12452149.jpg?imageId=12452149&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul speaks during a meeting at the National Assembly in western Seoul on April 23. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10797425.jpg?imageId=10797425&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Acting President Han Duck-soo addresses a ceremony at a national cemetery in the central city of Daejeon on March 28 to mark the 10th anniversary of the commemoration day for 55 troops who died in three major clashes with North Korea in the West Sea, comprising an inter-Korean naval skirmish in 2002, North Korea's torpedo attack on the Cheonan corvette in 2010 and its shelling of the border island of Yeonpyeong in the same year. In 2016, the government designated the fourth Friday of March 'West Sea Defense Day.' [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10133158.jpg?imageId=10133158&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![National Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup, left, and Gen. Kim Seung-kyum, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, attend a parliamentary audit hearing on Monday at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, to answer questions about North Korean provocations and the Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s North Korea policy. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10444914.jpg?imageId=10444914&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)