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Kim Yo-jong, sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, says that North Korea is open to holding another summit in South Korea if mutual respect between the two countries can be assured.
2021-09-25

The North Korean state news agency KCNA reports that the country will suspend military action plans against the South after a meeting of the Central Military Commission presided by Kim Jong-un. North Korea had protested against defectors sending leaflets to the border, and Kim's sister Kim Yo-jong had threatened a military response.
2020-06-24

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

A Korean People's Army soldier defects to South Korea via the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). He was shot and injured by fellow North Korean soldiers as he crossed to the South Korean side at Panmunjom, and has been taken to hospital.
2017-11-13

North Korea and South Korea hold meetings to discuss visitation reunions of families separated by the Korean War.
2014-02-5

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

South Korea's defence minister-designate Kim Kwan-jin threatens North Korea with air strikes if the shelling of Yeonpyeong is repeated. The shelling was in response to South Korean naval exercises.
2010-12-3

3 South Koreans are investigated for allegedly attempting to defect to North Korea.
2010-10-22

The first inter-Korean military talks between North and South Korea in two years end without progress.
2010-09-30

North Korea executes by firing squad Kwon Ho Ung, a former cabinet official who led talks with South Korea from 2004 until 2007.
2010-07-20