Sources: Yonhap
South Korea opposition leader Lee Jae-myung calls for renewed dialogue talks with North Korea and emphasizes the need to maintain strong military readiness amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. 2025-02-10
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 and South Korea begin removing landmines and other explosives from the Korean Demilitarized Zone. 2018-10-1
The United States deploys parts of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense in South Korea amidst high tension caused by North Korea's escalation of its missile and nuclear weapons programs. 2017-04-26
North and South Korea exchange artillery fire across sea boundaries. 2014-03-31
South Korean prosecutors charge Unified Progressive Party MP Lee Seok-ki with plotting an armed revolt in support of North Korea. 2013-09-26
North Korea breaks the 1953 armistice with South Korea and cuts the phone line between the two countries, after United States and South Korea have begun military drills. North Korean officials say that the army is ready to attack at any given order. 2013-03-11
The South Korean Ministry of National Defense states that a North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea after killing two of his superiors. 2012-10-6
South Korea announces plans to hold two frontline artillery drills on Baengnyeong Island and Yeonpyeong Island near North Korea. 2011-04-30
The first inter-Korean military talks between North and South Korea in two years end without progress. 2010-09-30