| April
2 | - The ROK President meets a
delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives and
stresses the importance of addressing the North Korean
nuclear and human rights issues and the need for unification
on the Korean Peninsula.
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| April 2 | - A spokesperson
for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the
Fatherland, in a statement, repeatedly argues that South
Korean citizens are detained on charges of spying,
distorting the incident, while threatening “merciless
punishment.”
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| April 2 |
- North Korea fires short-range
ballistic missiles (one missile on April 2 and four missiles
on April 3).
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| April 2 |
- Regarding the labor regulations
in the Gaeseong Industrial Complex (GIC), the ROK government
sends an official document asking the companies in the GIC
to “follow the existing rules until the South and the North
reach a separate agreement.”
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| March 2 | - The ROK
government warns a “stern and firm response to the North’s
provocations” (in a briefing by a spokesperson of the
Ministry of National Defense).
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| April 3 | - The ROK
government expresses strong regret over the North’s
criticizing and threatening of the South while falsely
claiming that detained South Korean citizens are spies and
urges the North to repatriate them as soon as possible (in a
commentary by the Unification Ministry spokesperson).
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| April 9 | - The 13th Supreme People’s Assembly holds
its third meeting (Kim Jong-un absent) and makes decisions
on the three agenda items of △(Business) addressing the food
issue for the people, △(Budget) increasing the budget by
5.5% for 2015, and △(Organization) replacing a member of the
National Defense Commission (Park Do-chun → Kim
Chun-seop).
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| April 9 |
- The Unification Minister, at the
first meeting of the Committee on the Development of
Inter-Korean Relations for 2015, stresses that the two
Koreas should establish channels of substantial cooperation
and the South’s government departments and agencies should
communicate with each other to make progress in unification
preparation.
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| April 10 |
- The ROK President, at a meeting
with U.S. Defense Secretary Carter, emphasizes that the
South cannot tolerate the vicious cycle of compromise and
compensation for the North’s provocations.
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| April 10 | - The
North Korean delegation visits the South to participate in
the meeting of delegates for the Gwangju Summer Universiade
(April 10-14).
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| April 14 |
- The ROK President, at the summit
meeting between the leaders of South Korea and Hungary, says
that “North Korea should follow the example of the Hungarian
experience in system change.”
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| April 15 | - Fighters for
Free North Korea, a civic organization in South Korea,
scatters anti-North Korea leaflets.
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| April 16 | - Hyun
Yong-chul, Head of the Department of the People’s Armed
Forces, expresses the North’s position of maintaining the
Byungjin line (developing nuclear weapons and the economy
simultaneously) at the International Security Conference in
Moscow.
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| April 17 | - Regarding the “Sung Wan-jong list,” the
Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification
of the Fatherland criticizes the ROK government as “the main
culprit of corruption.”
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| April 21 | - The ROK
President urges the North to give up its nuclear program at
the summit meeting between the leaders of South Korea and
Peru.
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| April 21 | - The Unification Minister reports the
2015 implementation plan of the second Basic Plan for the
Development of Inter-Korean Relations at the meeting of the
Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee.
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| April 21 | - The
Eugene Bell Foundation visits the North to treat TB patients
on April 21 (on a three-week itinerary).
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| April 22 |
- Regarding the wage issue in the GIC, the payment
deadline is extended to April 24th.
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| April 24 | - The
Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification
of the Fatherland criticizes the ROK President by name for
suppressing the memorial rally to mark the first anniversary
of the Sewol ferry disaster and instigates an
anti-government campaign.
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| April 24 | - Kim Yong-nam,
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly,
at the Bandung Conference, criticizes that “Washington’s
hostile policy toward North Korea is creating a crisis on
the Korean Peninsula,” and “South Korea’s anti-unification
attitude becomes an obstacle to improving inter-Korean
relations and unification.”
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| April 24 | - Regarding the
South’s expectation for the improvement in inter-Korean
relations after Foal Eagle, North Korea’s By Our Nation
Itself criticizes the ROK government, stating “Don’t even
dream about having talks with us.”
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| April 28 | - Ace
Gyeongam, a charity foundation fund, visits the North for
the project of creating a greenhouse (April 28 – May
2).
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| April 30 | - The North’s Foreign Ministry
spokesperson, in a statement, denounces the revision of the
Guidelines for U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation.
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