Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Tuesday he lodged a complaint to U.S. Ambassador to Korea Michelle Steel last week over recent remarks by the chief of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) on the inter-Korean border. Controversy has arisen over comments made by USFK Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson at a seminar in Washington earlier this month, when he said that, from the U.N. Command's (UNC) perspective, Korean territory begins at the southern fence line of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), established under the armistice that halted the 1950-53 Korean War. Brunson also serves as commander of the UNC. "Last week, I called Steel to the foreign ministry to convey our position following Brunson's remarks. I will raise the matter with the U.S. side again," Cho said during a parliamentary audit of his ministry, responding to a lawmaker's call for the government to issue "a clear warning" to Washington over the matter. Some lawmakers and critics have accused Brunson of questioning Korea's territorial sovereignty. Under the Korean Constitution, the country's territory encompasses the entire Korean Peninsula and it