| September 4-6. | - The fifth
Eastern Economic Forum is held in Vladivostok, Russia
* The seminar on economic cooperation between South and
North Korea and Russia scheduled for September 4 was called
off. |
| September 5. |
- Regarding North Korea’s request for
the U.N. to reduce the number of international staff posted
in North Korea, a spokesperson for the United Nations says
that it is in dialogue with the North and that capacity must
remain at current levels to ensure continued U.N. support
for North Korea.
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| September
5. | - The UN Security Council
Sanctions Committee on North Korea publishes the interim
report of the Panel of Experts on its website.
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| September 9. |
- Choe Son Hui, North Korea’s first vice foreign minister,
in a statement carried by the North’s state-run Korean
Central News Agency (KCNA), says, “We are willing to sit
down with the U.S. side for comprehensive discussion of the
issues we have so far taken up at the time and place to be
agreed in late September.”
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| September 9. | - The
Ministry of Unification and the Korea Institute for National
Unification hold an event marking the 30th anniversary of
the Unification Plan for the Korean National Community in
Seoul.
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| September 9. |
- The National Human Rights Commission
of Korea gives a written report on its findings regarding
the North Korean restaurant workers’ defection to the
South.
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| September 9. |
- The UN Human Rights Council posts
North Korea’s response to the recommendations adopted at the
meeting of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic
Review (May 9) on its website.
- The DPRK accepted
132, noted 63, and rejected 74 of the 262
recommendations. |
| September
10. | - North Korea fires two
unidentified missiles from inland South Pyeongan Province
toward the east.
* The North Korean media reported
that Kim Jong Un gave field guidance at the test-firing of a
super-large multiple rocket launcher. |
| September 10. | - The
National Security Council (NSC) Standing Committee holds an
emergency meeting.
- “(The members) expressed strong
concern about North Korea’s continued launch of short-range
projectiles since May and reviewed the overall security
conditions on the Korean Peninsula.” |
| September 10. | - The
South-North Korea Exchange and Cooperation Support
Association opens a comprehensive support center.
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| September 14. |
- The joint inter-Korean liaison office marks the first
anniversary of its opening.
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| September 16. | - North
Korea’s US Affairs Bureau Director Kwon Jong Gun issues a
statement.
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| September 18. |
- The South gives the North
notifications regarding African Swine Fever through the
liaison office.
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| September
19. | - South and North Korea mark
the first anniversary of the Pyeongyang Joint Declaration of
September.
*An event marking the first anniversary of
the Pyeongyang Joint Declaration of September was held in
Seoul. |
| September 20. |
- The UN Human Rights Council adopts a
UPR report on North Korea.
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| September 20. | - North
Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator Kim Myong Gil issues a
statement.
- “As chief delegate in the working-level
negotiations with Washington, I welcome the wise political
decision of President Trump to approach DPRK-U.S. relations
from a more practical point of view.” |
| September 23. | - The
leaders of South Korea and the U.S. hold a summit
meeting.
- “Soon, I will be expecting the
working-level negotiations between the United States and
North Korea to prepare for the third North Korea-U.S.
summit. When you have your third summit with Chairman Kim, I
hope that this will go down as a truly historic moment in
world history. This will be a great achievement that is
nothing less than a great transformation in terms of
complete denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula (Remarks
by President Moon of the Republic of Korea Before the
bilateral meeting).” |
| September 24. | - President
Moon gives a keynote speech at the 74th session of the U.N.
General Assembly.
- “Based on the three principles
(zero tolerance for war, a mutual security guarantee, and
common prosperity), I would like to propose to the United
Nations and all the member states the idea of transforming
the Demilitarized Zone that cuts across the middle of the
Korean Peninsula into an international peace zone.”
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| September 27. | - North Korean Foreign Ministry advisor
Kim Kye Gwan issues a statement.
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| September 30. | - North
Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Kim Song gives a speech at the
general debate of the 74th session of the United Nations
General Assembly.
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| September
30. | - The ROK National Assembly
adopts a resolution condemning North Korea's nuclear weapons
development and recent missile provocations and urging the
prevention of a recurrence.
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