| July
1 | - Ministers of Foreign Affairs
representing the ROK, the US and Japan hold a meeting on the
occasion of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF, June 30-July
2)
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| July 3 | - North Korea delivers a message through
hotline regarding the Gaeseong Industrial Complex to the
management committee and the association of companies housed
in the Gaeseong Industrial Complex
- Informs that
officials of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex will be allowed
to visit the Complex and that North Korea is willing to
discuss necessary matters
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| July 4 | - The ROK
government makes an official proposal to hold a
working-level meeting on the Gaeseong Industrial
Complex
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| July 6-7 | - The 1st Working-Level Meeting of the two
Koreas on Gaeseong Industrial Complex is held (Tongil Gak,
Panumjeom)
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| July 10-19 |
- Businessmen visit Gaeseong
Industrial Complex to inspect facilities and proceed with
transfer of resources
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| July
23 | - North Korea informs the UN
of the scale of damage caused by floods during Monsoon
season and makes an emergency request for support on
addressing the damages
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| July
27 | - The ROK government holds a
ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of
the Korean War in which many UN troops sacrificed their
lives (Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul)
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| July 27 | - The US
holds a ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of
armistice following the Korean War (Korean War Veterans
Memorial in Washington, D.C.)
- President Obama
remarks, “The Korean War was not a tie, but a victory for
South Korea.”
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| July 27 |
- North Korea holds a ceremony to
commemorate the 60th anniversary of “Victory in War”
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| July 28 | - South Korean Minister of Unification
issues a statement regarding Gaeseong Industrial Complex and
humanitarian aid to the North
- Urges North Korea to
assure a similar incident would be prevented in order to
normalize operations at Gaeseong Industrial Complex,
proposes a last series of talks.
- Expresses South
Korea’s willingness to deliver humanitarian aid to the most
vulnerable in North Korea, such as children, regardless of
political tensions between the two Koreas
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| July 29 | - Five NGOs
are approved of their aid to be delivered to North
Korea
- Items and categories: Drugs and nutritionally
enriched meals for children in North Korea
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| July 29 | - US State
Department announces its stance that “there are no plans to
dispatch former President Carter to North Korea as a special
envoy.”
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| July 31 | - Rodong Shinmun, a North Korean daily,
criticizes the US-South Korea joint military exercises
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