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North and South Korea restore hotlines between the two countries, more than a year after Pyongyang cut ties in June 2020. The move comes after months of correspondence by letters of negotiations between South Korean president Moon Jae-in and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in an attempt to improve relations between the two countries.
2021-07-27

The South Korean military claims that North Korean military has launched an "unidentified projectile" into the sea, marking the second time North Korea has conducted a weapons test in a single week.
2019-05-9

South Korea and the United States start annual military drills despite North Korea's threats of nuclear attacks.
2016-08-22

North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom, Thae Yong-ho, defects with his family to South Korea.
2016-08-17

South Korea imposes direct sanctions against North Korea that blacklists dozens of Northern companies and people for the first time, and bans ships that have visited North Korean ports in the previous 180 days from its waters.
2016-03-8

Han Min-goo, the South Korean Minister for National Defense states that South Korea will "mercilessly counterattack" any North Korean "provocations" following the North's successful trial of a ballistic missile system.
2015-05-11

South Korea signs a new military plan with the United States to counter a possible incursion or a limited attack from North Korea.
2013-03-25

North Korea ends all peace pacts with South Korea and closes the main Panmunjom border crossing inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone. North Korean generals affirm they are aiming their long range missiles at the U.S. mainland in retaliation for the recently approved U.N. sanctions.
2013-03-8

The South Korean officials report that an "artificial earthquake" has occurred in North Korea suggesting that a nuclear test has occurred.
2013-02-12

South Korea begins a huge anti-submarine exercise in the Yellow Sea, near the disputed maritime border, in what it sees as a show of strength against North Korea and "to be fully prepared for combat"; North Korea disapproves of the exercise.
2010-08-5