| Aug
4-5 | - Former U.S. President Bill
Clinton visits North Korea and meets with Chairman Kim Jong
Il. Clinton departs North Korea with two U.S. journalists
who were under detention in the North.
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| Aug 10-17 | - Hyun
Jung-eun, chairwoman of Hyundai Group, visits North Korea
and meets with Chairman Kim Jong Il on August 16.
- Hyundai Group and North Korea's Asia-Pacific Peace
Committee issue a joint statement on the reunion of
separated families on the occasion of the Chuseok
holidays.
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| Aug 13 | - The GIC worker detained in North Korea
is repatriated.
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| Aug 15 |
- In his speech on the 64th
Liberation Day, President Lee Myung-bak proposes the 'New
Peace Initiative for the Korean Peninsula.'
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| Aug 19 | - North
Korea sends a message of condolence signed by Chairman Kim
Jong Il after the death of former President Kim Dae
Jung.
- North Korea's Asia-Pacific Peace Committee
notifies the Kim Dae Jung Peace Center of their plan to send
a delegation to the late president's funeral.
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| Aug 20 |
- The president of the [South] Korean National Red Cross
proposes to hold inter-Korean Red Cross talks at Mt.
Geumgang from August 26 to 28.
- The resumption of
Panmunjeom hotlines between the Red Cross societies is
agreed.
- North Korea notifies the South that it will
lift the restrictions on transit to the GIC it has placed on
December 1, 2008.
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| Aug
21 | - North Korea sends a message
of condolence signed by Chairman Kim Jong Il after the death
of former President Kim Dae Jung.
- North Korea's
Asia-Pacific Peace Committee notifies the Kim Dae Jung Peace
Center of their plan to send a delegation to the late
president's funeral.
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| Aug
22 | - The ROK Minister of
Unification Hyun In-Taek meets with North Korea's Director
of the United Front Department Kim Yang Gon.
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| Aug 23 |
- North Korea's delegation pays a courtesy call on
President Lee Myung-bak.
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| Aug
25 | - A cable message signed by
the Central Committee of the Red Cross Society of North
Korea is received.
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| Aug
26-28 | - Inter-Korean Red Cross
talks take place at Mt. Geumgang.
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| Aug 29 | - North Korea
repatriates the fishing vessel Yeonan 800 and its four crew
members.
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