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North Korea rejects South Korea's offer to send special envoys to defuse the current tensions on the peninsula, after having destroyed the Inter-Korean Liaison Office, and says the Korean People's Army will re-enter the demilitarized Kaesong and Mount Kumgang areas.
2020-06-17

North Korea accepts South Korea's proposal for official talks, and will meet on January 9 to discuss North Korea's possible involvement with the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. These are the first high-level talks between the Koreas in more than two years.
2018-01-4

Kim Jong-un is acknowledged as the new supreme leader of North Korea at the conclusion of a state funeral for his father.
2011-12-29

Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, announces that the United States will impose further sanctions against North Korea as a result of the sinking of the South Korean warship ROKS "Cheonan".
2010-07-21

North Korea asks the United Nations Security Council to investigate the sinking of the "Cheonan". Diplomats say South Korea wants the council to condemn North Korea.
2010-07-1

North Korea threatens a military response if the United Nations Security Council questions or condemns it for the ROKS Cheonan sinking. North Korean UN Permanent Representative Sin Son Ho demands that a North Korean investigation team be allowed to travel to the site of the sinking.
2010-06-15

China encourages North Korea and South Korea to avoid violent clashes in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship.
2010-05-30

North Korea says it will scrap an accord aimed at preventing accidental naval clashes with South Korea after being blamed for a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship.
2010-05-27

An independent investigation concludes that a North Korean torpedo caused the sinking of the South Korean Cheonan warship Cheonan.
2010-05-19

A South Korean Navy ship named the Cheonan, carrying more than 100 personnel sinks near the Northern Limit Line in waters off the country's west coast near North Korea.
2010-03-26