List of Border Incidents Involving North Korea - 1970s

1970s

• April 1970: In Geumchon, a region of Paju south of the DMZ, a clash leaves three North Korean soldiers dead and five South Korean soldiers wounded.
• June 1970: The North Korean navy seizes a broadcast vessel from the South near the Northern Limit Line. 20 crew are captured.
• February 1974: Two South Korean fishing vessels are sunk and 30 crew detained by the North.
• 1974: The first tunnel into ROK is discovered (the three following tunnels were found in 1975, 1978, 1990)
• June 1976: An incursion south of the DMZ in Gangwon-do leaves three dead from the North and six from the South.
• August 18, 1976: The Axe murder incident -- an attempt to clear brush in the Demilitarized Zone near Panmunjom ends with two US soldiers dead.
• October 1979: Three North Koreans enter the eastern DMZ. One is killed.
• December 1979: One US Army Soldier killed, 3 US Soldiers wounded after stumbling into a North Korean minefield in a heavy fog while patrolling DMZ. One body is recovered from the North Koreans 5 days later.