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North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un says that Korean reunification is "no longer possible" and dissolves three organizations involved in reunification efforts and inter-Korean tourism. He also asks the Supreme People's Assembly to amend the constitution to recognize South Korea as a "primary foe and invariable principal enemy" and distinguish between North Korean and South Korean territory.
2024-01-15

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 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

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

A group of 13 North Koreans working at a restaurant in an unidentified country defect en masse to South Korea, according to Seoul's Ministry of Unification.
2016-04-8

The United States deploys an additional Patriot missile battery to South Korea in response to North Korea's recent rocket launch.
2016-02-12

North Korea and South Korea agree to hold talks next week. [http:--english.yonhapnews.co.kr-news-2015-11-20-0200000000AEN20151120004700315.html?input=www.tweeter.com (Yonhap)]date=August 2019
2015-11-20

North Korea blocks a delegation of South Korean businessmen from delivering food and supplies to 200 of their staff inside the closed Kaesong joint industrial zone.
2013-04-17

North Korea says it will withdraw all of its workers from the Kaesong Industrial Region, an industrial complex that is jointly run with South Korea, and consider shuttering the complex permanently.
2013-04-8