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After speaking by phone with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Japanese Foreign Minister Tarō Kōno says "he hopes the meeting adds momentum to efforts toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula". Kōno also says that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe "wants to meet Kim Jong-un to solve the issue of North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens".
2019-07-1

South Korea says that it will halt military drills with the United States to help with Korean denuclearization talks.
2018-06-13

North Korea accepts South Korea's proposal to hold high-level inter-Korean talks, scheduled to take place on March 29.
2018-03-24

South Korean president Moon Jae-in states that North Korea is willing to enter talks with the United States in an effort to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
2018-02-25

North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time 8.5 hours ahead of UTC in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Korean peninsula.
2015-08-15

North Korea warns against an underway joint military drill by South Korea and the United States, stating that the exercise could jeopardize a recent easing of tension on the Korean Peninsula.
2013-08-29

North Korea holds an artillery drill near Yeonpyeong Island, which it shelled earlier this week.
2010-11-26

South Korea increases its military strength on the islands near the border since the shelling of Yeonpyeong on Tuesday.
2010-11-25

The Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan apologises to South Korea for colonising the Korean peninsula for three decades in the early 1900s and promises to return cultural relics in the near future.
2010-08-10

North Korea calls for the end of hostilities with the United States and a nuclear free Korean Peninsula, to restart talks; in its annual New Year editorial.
2010-01-1