| October
1 | - In an address to the UN
General Assembly, North Korea’s Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs Park Gil Yeon criticizes the US policy towards North
Korea and argues for a ‘nuclear-free world’ achieved by
nuclear disarmament talks
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| October 1-2 | - Track 2
meeting between the US and North Korea is held (London),
North Korea’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Lee Yong Ho
and former US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen
Bosworth attends the meeting to discuss measures to resume
six-party talks
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| October
4 | - Spokesperson to North
Korea’s National Defense Committee Policy Bureau issues a
statement and criticizes the South Korean President citing
incidents such as the President’s remarks on the occasion of
Korean National Military Day.
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| October 4 | - Spokesperson
to South Korea’s Ministry of Unification expresses deep
regret at North Korea’s criticism and urges the North to
show remarks and acts based on dignity and mutual
respect
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| October 7 |
- On the occasion of the APEC meeting
(in Bali), the heads of state of South Korea and China
reconfirm their commitment to the principles of nuclear
non-proliferation on the Korean Peninsula and agree to
reinforce the alliance on issues concerning North Korea’s
nuclear weapons
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| October
9 | - South Korean President
emphasizes that “North Korea should take cues from Myanmar’s
policy of reform and openness and take the path to true
change and peace.” (at the South Korea-Myanmar Summit on the
occasion of the ASEAN+3/EAS meeting)
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| October 10 | - Mother of
Kenneth Bae, who is held by the North Korean government,
visits North Korea and meets with her son the Pyeongyang
Chinseon Hospital
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| October
11 | - South Korea requests a
postponement of a joint investor relations session for
Gaeseong Industrial Complex, originally scheduled for
October 31
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| October 14 |
- The Committee on Foreign Affairs
and Unification of South Korea’s National Assembly makes an
official request to the South Korean government to visit the
sites of Gaeseong Industrial Complex
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| October 14 | - In a
keynote address at the First Committee of the UN General
Assembly, North Korean ambassador to United Nations Shin
Seon Ho requests a guarantee of the safety of the North
Korean government through a signing of a peace treaty
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| October 15 | - North Korea agrees to the postponement
of the joint investor relations session for Gaeseong
Industrial Complex, noting that “it is not appropriate to
hold an IR session at times like this.”
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| October 17 |
- Approval is granted to an NGO for the monitoring of
humanitarian aid provided to North Korea
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| October 18 | - South
Korean President delivers a keynote address at the “Eurasia
Conference” and suggests a “Eurasia Initiative” to make
Eurasia “one continent, a continent that fosters creativity
and peace.”
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| October 23 |
- Secretariat of the North-South
Joint Committee at Gaeseong Industrial Complex signs an
“adjunct agreement on the operation and management of the
North-South Joint Committee at Gaeseong Industrial
Complex
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| October 24 |
- North Korea notifies through the
Secretariat of the North-South Joint Committee at Gaeseong
Industrial Complex that it approves the visit of South
Korean National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and
Unification to Gaeseong Industrial Complex
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| October 24 | - North
Korea notifies through the hotline that it will repatriate,
out of humanitarianism, six South Koreans who had illegally
entered North Korea and had been cracked down upon (message
from the head of the North Korean Red Cross in North Korea
to his South Korean counterpart)
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| October 24 | - South Korea
expresses regret through the hotline that “North Korea has
not responded to any of our requests for identification but
we welcome the decision to repatriate them to South Korea”
(message from the head of the South Korean Red Cross to his
North Korean counterpart)
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| October 26 | - Six South
Koreans as well as the remains of one person who were held
in North Korea are repatriated through Panmunjeom
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