| June 1 |
- Regarding the May 30 sentencing of
the South Korean missionary, the Unification Ministry
spokesperson in his statement expresses regret and called on
Pyongyang to promptly release and repatriate him.
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| June 3 |
- The ROK government repatriated, through Panmunjeom, one
of three North Korean fishermen who had been rescued by a
South Korean coast guard vessel after their ship ran adrift
off the east coast of South Korea.
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| June 4 | - The Ministry
of Unification approves the Gyungnam Unification
Agricultural Cooperation to send to the North agricultural
aid supplies including strawberry seedlings worth 33 million
won.
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| June 5 | - The Central Committee of the DPRK Red
Cross Society makes statements that the defection of two of
the rescued fishermen is unjustified detainment, threatening
that it would take stern measures unless they are
immediately sent back.
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| June
6 | - President Park in her
Memorial Day address urges Pyongyang to stop nuclear
development and provocative threats.
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| June 6 | - Regarding
Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin‘s appointment as the national
security adviser, the CPRK secretariat in a media report
states that inter-Korean relations would be inevitably
driven to catastrophe and the risk of war would be
created.
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| June 9 | - A CPRK denounces the installation of a
field office in the South on human rights in North Korea as
an anti-DPRK snare intended as a prelude to invasion and
subversion and warned of a merciless shower of fire.
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| June 9 | - South Korea‘s chairman of the
South-North Joint Committee for GIC sends a message to his
North Korean counterpart proposing a fifth meeting of the
committee on June 19.
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| June
10 | - The Ministry of Unification
sends a message to the United Front Department of North
Korea expressing regret over the detainment and unilateral
sentencing of the South Korean missionary Kim Jeong-wook and
proposed inter-authority working-level meetings to discuss
the issue at Panmunjeom on June 17.
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| June 12 | - The United
Front Department of North Korea sends a message to the
Ministry of Unification rejecting the proposal to discuss
the South Korean missionary Kim Jeong-wook.
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| June 12 | - In a
press release, the Ministry of Unification expresses regret
over Pyongyang‘s rejection of Seoul‘s proposal for
working-level meetings despite its unilateral arrest and
detainment of a South Korean citizen, urging the North to
respond positively to the proposal.
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| June 16 | - The ROK
government repatriates through Panmunjom all five fishermen
who had been rescued from the South Korean side of the East
Sea after being stranded (June 13) as they intended to
return to the North.
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| June
16 | - A North Korean fisherman is
rescued while drifting in South Korean waters on the South
Korean side of the East Sea (He expressed his intention to
defect).
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| June 19 | - The CPRK secretariat in its media report
criticizes Moon Chang-keuk, a prime minister candidate,
insisting on the revocation of his nomination.
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| June 23 |
- North Korea‘s chairman of the South-North Joint
Committee for GIC sends a message to his South Korean
counterpart proposing a fifth meeting of the committee on
June 26.
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| June 24 |
- South Korea‘s chairman of the
South-North Joint Committee for GIC sends a message to his
North Korean counterpart concurring to the North‘s
proposal.
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| June 24 |
- The CPRK in a statement condemns
ceremonies marking the 64th anniversary of the Korean War as
an event to "justify the South‘s invasion of North
Korea and make frantic efforts to wage a nuclear war against
the North."
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| June
25 | - South Korean personnel
engages in the Joint Publication of the Big Dictionary of
the Korean People’s Language visited the North (Gaeseong) to
discuss resumption of the project.
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| June 26 | - Green One
Korea holds a working-level meeting in Gaeseong with the
North‘s National Reconciliation Council to discuss
cooperation concerning forestation.
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| June 26 | - The two
countries holds the fifth session of the South-North Joint
Committee for GIC, confirmed each other‘s positions, and
ended with no agreements.
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| June 26 | - Pyongyang fires
three short-range projectiles off its east coast.
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| June 26 |
- Regarding the South‘s military drills near Yeonpyeong
Island, the Southwestern Front Command of the North Korean
Army in an important report warns that "all we need is
the order from the Supreme Command to strike."
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| June 29 | - North Korea fires two short-range
ballistic missiles.
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| June
30 | - North Korea‘s NDC announces
its ‘special proposal‘ to the ROK government, asking the
South to cease slander and defamation and hostile military
behavior, and to take practical measures for reconciliation
and cooperation.
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