| October
4 | - Nine North Korean refugees
whose boat drifted to Japan arrive in South Korea.
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| October 4 | - Two North Korean refugees express their
desire to defect.
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| October
5 | - North Korea’s Central
Committee of the Red Cross Society demands the return of the
two North Korean refugees who expressed their wish to
defect.
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| October 6 |
- The ROK government informs North
Korea that it will make a decision according to the wishes
of the two North Korean refugees.
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| October 6 | - North
Korea’s Central Committee of the Red Cross Society demands
the return of the two North Korean refugees and nine other
North Koreans who drifted into Japanese water
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| October 8 |
- North Korea’s Representative of the General-level
Inter-Korean Military Talks issues a warning against South
Korea
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| October 11 | - The ROK government announces its plan to
ease the difficulties that GIC companies face. The ROK
government decides to resume constructions that were halted
by the May 24 Measures and improve the transportation
services for GIC workers.
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| October 17-20 | - South
Korean and American scholars and North Korean government
officials attend an academic forum held at University of
Georgia in the US
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| October
18-20 | - North Korea and US hold
working-level talks in Bangkok to discuss the recovery
mission for the remains of US troops.
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| October 19 | - Kim
Jong-il answers questions posed by Russia’s Itar-Tass News
Agency. Kim Jong-il says denuclearization of the Korean
peninsula is a dying injunction of Kim Il-sung and that
North Korea is committed to denuclearizing the
peninsula.
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| October 20 |
- Spokesperson of the Committee for
the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland criticizes
South Korean President for his state visit to
Washington.
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| October 24-25 |
- North Korea and the US meet in
Geneva for nuclear talks.
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| October 28 | - The
South-North Historians Associations delegates and Gaeseong
Manwoldae Excavation team visit North Korea for
working-level talks.
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