SEOUL, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- No offensive weapons are deployed on North Korea's border island of Hambak in the Yellow Sea, the South Korean defense ministry said Wednesday, after security concerns arose following media reports that the communist nation could have deployed weapons like multiple rocket launchers there.
"Not a single attack weapon exists on the island," a senior defense ministry official told reporters, noting that the deployment of those weapons may constitute a violation of an inter-Korean military pact signed last year.