Updated at 6:15 p.m. KST: This article has been updated to include remarks from the Blue House briefing regarding the joint investigation and military hotline.

North Korea on Sunday warned South Korean vessels not to “intrude” into their territorial waters while searching for the body of a citizen who was shot and killed by DPRK soldiers last week.

“We don’t care whether the south side conducts any kind of search operation in its territorial waters or not,” North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) saidin an official warning on Sunday. “But we can never overlook any intrusion into