| September 1 |
- North Korea fires one short-range
projectile from Chagang Province into the East Sea.
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| September 2 | - President Park stresses inter-Korean
cooperation for unification and urges the North to change
its attitude during a dialogue with overseas members of the
National Unification Advisory Council.
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| September 4-5 |
- While condemning the speculation of “high-level contacts
between South and North Korea,” the North’s By Our Nation
Itself presents the preconditions for the talks, such as △
Stopping the Ulchi-Freedom Guardian (UFG) military
exercises, △ Implementing the existing joint declarations
between Seoul and Pyongyang, and △ Resuming Mt. Geumgang
tourism.
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| September 5 |
- The Unification Ministry
spokesperson, in his commentary, expresses regret that the
North has yet to respond to the South’s proposal for
high-level contacts and urges Pyongyang to respond even at
this belated time.
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| September
5 | - The chairman of the DPRK Red
Cross Society sends a message to the president of the Korean
Red Cross notifying it that the North will hand over a South
Korean citizen, who entered the North illegally, via
Panmunjeom on September 11th.
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| September 5 | - The
president of the Korean Red Cross sends a message to the
chairman of the DPRK Red Cross Society delivering its
willingness to claim the South Korean citizen.
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| September 6 |
- North Korea fires three short-range projectiles from
Wonsan into the East Sea.
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| September 7 | - A
spokesperson of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification
of the Fatherland, in a statement, calls upon the South to
stop the ROK-U.S. joint military exercises and withdraw U.S.
troops stationed in South Korea.
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| September 8 | - The South
returns three North Korean residents and a fishing boat
rescued near the Dokdo islets on September 7th to the North
via Panmunjeom.
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| September
11 | - The South’s chairman of the
3Cs (Come-and-go, Communications, and Customs) Subcommittee
of the South-North Joint Management Committee for the
Gaeseong Industrial Complex (GIC) sends a message to his
North Korean counterpart proposing to hold the meeting of
the 3Cs Subcommittee to consult such issues as implementing
free passage and connecting the Internet on September
18th.
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| September 11 |
- The Minister of Environment of South
Korea sends a message to the Minister of Land and
Environmental Protection of North Korea urging the North to
participate in the Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on Biological Diversity.
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| September 11 | - The
North’s advance team of 94 delegates visits the South to
participate in the Incheon Asian Games.
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| September 11 | - The
North returns a South Korean resident, who entered the North
illegally, to the South via Panmunjeom.
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| September 12 | - The
president of the Korean Red Cross sends a message to the
chairman of the DPRK Red Cross Society urging the North to
release and repatriate Kim Jeong-wook, detained in the North
while assessing the repatriation of the South Korean
(September 11th).
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| September
13 | - A spokesperson of the North
Korean delegation for high-level contacts, in a statement,
denounces South Korean civic organizations’ scattering of
leaflets as an anti-DPRK, psychological warfare tactic,
threatens a retaliatory strike, and argues that it can
engage in dialogue only if this issue is addressed.
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| September 13 | - The Secretariat of the National Defense
Commission sends a message to the National Security Office
at the Blue House stating similar messages to those in the
statement made by the spokesperson of the North Korean
delegation for high-level contacts.
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| September 13 | - The
North’s chairman of the 3Cs Subcommittee of the South-North
Joint Management Committee for the GIC sends a message to
his South Korean counterpart arguing that only after
addressing the issue of public order violations at the GIC
and stopping the scattering of anti-North Korea leaflets
will the 3C’s subcommittee meeting be resumed.
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| September 13 |
- The Unification Ministry spokesperson, in his
commentary, expresses regret that the North distorted the
facts and threatened retaliation against the South’s civic
organizations, even though the ROK government is fulfilling
the agreement to halt cross-border slander, and urges the
North to come forward to the dialogue table.
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| September 14 |
- The South’s chairman of the 3Cs Subcommittee of the
South-North Joint Management Committee for the GIC sends a
message to his North Korean counterpart expressing regret
that the North presented issues irrelevant to the GIC as
preconditions for holding the Subcommittee meeting and
urging the North to respond to the South’s proposal for the
meeting.
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| September 14 |
- The North sentences detained
American tourist Matthew Todd Miller to six years of hard
labor.
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| September 15 |
- The Secretariat of the National
Defense Commission sends a message to the National Security
Office at the Blue House repeating the same arguments as in
the message sent on September 13th.
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| September 15 | - The
North’s chairman of the 3Cs Subcommittee of the South-North
Joint Management Committee for the GIC sends a message to
his South Korean counterpart repeating its arguments that
the come-and-go, communications, and customs issues can only
be addressed after resolving the leaflet-scattering
issue.
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| September 18 |
- The ROK government decides to
support the Maternal and Child Health Care Project through
WHO and WFP (13.3 million dollars).
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| September 18 | - North
Korea notifies its participation in the CISM World Military
Pentathlon Championship in Yeongcheon, North Gyeongsang
Province (October 2-11) via the International Military
Sports Council.
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| September
19 | - The ROK government approves
the provision of humanitarian assistance to the North by
civic organizations, including Seomgim, or “the Devotion,”
and the Korea Association of People Sharing Love.
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| September 19 |
- A North Korean patrol boat crosses the Northern Limit
Line (NLL) in the West Sea.
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| September 20 | - In a
Q&A session with a reporter from the Korean Central News
Agency, a spokesperson of the North Korean delegation for
high-level contacts says that the North will “wait and see
how the South will deal with the scattering of anti-North
Korea leaflets on September 21st.”
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| September 22 | - A
spokesperson of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification
of the Fatherland, in a statement, demands that the leader
should be punished regarding the South Korean civic
organizations’ spreading of leaflets (September 21st) and
hints that dialogue between the authorities of both sides is
not possible, criticizing the ROK government.
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| September 24 |
- In her keynote address at the UN General Assembly,
President Park △ Presents a vision for a unified Korean
Peninsula where the North Korean nuclear and human rights
issues are addressed, △ Urges the North to give up its
nuclear program and come forward to the path of changes that
can improve the lives of people, △ Requests the North and
the international community to take the necessary measures
to implement the recommendations of the Commission of
Inquiry and calls for the international community to be
interested in the human rights of North Korean
refugees.
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| September 24 |
- The Ministry of National Defense
announces that a miniature drone collected near Baekryeong
Island on September 15th has been identified as the same
model as the North Korean drones discovered in Paju from
March to April.
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| September
25 | - In his keynote speech at
the 2014 Korea Global Forum, the Unification Minister
stresses that the South is willing to bring all the
inter-Korean issues to the table and resolve them, urging
the North to respond to the South’s proposal for
dialogue.
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| September 25 |
- North Korea holds the Supreme
People’s Assembly (Kim Jong-un absent).
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| September 26 | - The
Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland
issues a statement condemning President Park by name
regarding her raising issue with the North Korean nuclear
program and human rights during her address at the UN
General Assembly.
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| September
27 | - A spokesperson of the
Policy Department of the National Defense Commission, in a
statement, criticizes President Park’s address at the
U.N.
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| September 28 |
- In his speech at the UN General
Assembly, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong once
again emphasizes the North’s existing position to have
nuclear capabilities, lashes out at raising issue with the
North Korean human rights issue, and argues for unification
through the federal system.
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| September 29 | - The
Unification Ministry spokesperson, in his briefing,
criticizes the North’s rude criticism regarding President
Park’s address at the UN General Assembly, and again, calls
upon the North to come forward to the dialogue table if it
wants to discuss pending issues.
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| September 29 | - The ROK
government approves the provision of humanitarian assistance
(200 million won worth of vegetable garden and
greenhouse-related goods and farm materials and machinery,
etc.) to the North by Ace Gyeongam, a charity foundation
fund.
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