| June
1 | - Seoul, Washington, and Tokyo
examine the situation on the Korean Peninsula, discuss ways
to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea, and agree to
induce the North to move toward denuclearization through
pressure (in a meeting between chief delegates to the
Six-Party Talks from the ROK, the U.S., and Japan in
Tokyo).
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| June 1 | - North Korea releases a documentary about
the launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)
(Korean Central Television).
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| June 2 | - North Korea
threatens to take merciless military actions in response to
the South’s refusal of the North’s proposal for inter-Korean
military talks (in a statement by the Committee for the
Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRF).
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| June 3 | - The ROK
government expresses strong regret over the North’s threat
against the South regarding the CPRF’s statement (June 2)
(in a regular briefing by a spokesperson for the Ministry of
Unification).
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| June 3 |
- Seoul and Washington agree to
continue bilateral cooperation in identifying the means and
ways in which North Korea abuses the international financial
system (in a meeting between the ROK Finance Minister and
the U.S. Treasury Secretary in Seoul).
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| June 3 | - Seoul and
Paris agree to faithfully implement the UNSC Resolutions on
North Korea to address the North Korean nuclear issue and
take additional actions if necessary (in the joint
declaration marking the 130th anniversary of the
establishment of diplomatic relations between the ROK and
France adopted at a summit meeting between the heads of
state of both countries).
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| June 6 | - The ROK President
emphasizes that the government will maintain tough sanctions
and pressure against North Korea in close cooperation with
the international community until the North chooses the path
toward denuclearization and comes forward for dialogue while
asserting the importance of the unity of the people (in her
speech on the 61st Memorial Day).
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| June 7 | - The ROK and
the EU discuss ways to cooperate on sanctions against the
North and the overall North Korean issues including the
nuclear issue (in a meeting between the ROK Special
Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security
Affairs and the Secretary General of the European External
Action Service (EEAS) at the EU headquarters in
Brussels).
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| June 8 |
- A North Korean ship crosses the
Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the East Sea and retreats after
being challenged by ROK naval vessels.
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| June 9 | - North
Korea holds a joint conference by the DPRK government,
political parties, and organizations, and adopts an “Appeal
to the Entire Korean People.”
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| June 10 | - The ROK
government dismisses North Korea’s proposal for a great
national conference for reunification (June 9) as just part
of the North’s deceptive tactics and urges the North to
express its position on denuclearization and to put it into
practice (in a regular briefing by a spokesperson for the
Ministry of Unification).
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| June 13 | - The ROK
President dismisses the North’s proposal for dialogue
without denuclearization as a deception meant to turn the
situation around and emphasizes that the government will
employ its diplomatic capability to ensure that the
international community joins together to sternly respond to
the North Korean nuclear issue (in her speech at the opening
session of the 20th National Assembly).
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| June 13 | - The ROK
government states that North Korea’s nuclear development
violates the fundamental spirit of the agreements signed
between South and North Korea, and urges the North to
improve inter-Korean relations and to take the path toward
peaceful unification on the Korean Peninsula by desisting
from further provocations and threats and giving up its
nuclear program (in the government position statement
regarding the June 15 Joint Declaration released by the
Ministry of Unification).
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| June 13 | - Seoul and Moscow
confirm that neither country can recognize North Korea as a
nuclear state, and agree to continue bilateral cooperation
on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula (in a meeting
between the Foreign Ministers of the ROK and Russia in
Moscow).
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| June 13 | - The Central Committee of the Korean
Social Democratic Party holds a plenary session.
- Discuss measures to implement reunification policies
presented at the 7th Party Congress; and decide to send the
South’s political parties a letter calling for both Koreas
to walk down the path toward independent reunification
through national unity and solidarity
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| June 13 | - North Korea
delivers the UN the letter adopted at the joint conference
by the DPRK government, political parties, and organizations
(June 9) (from the DPRK Foreign Ministry to the UN
Secretariat).
- Urge key personnel at the UN to help
address unification issues on the Korean Peninsula
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| June 15 | - The ROK President emphasizes that Seoul
and Washington should more closely coordinate policy under
the principle that “North Korea’s denuclearization should
come first” (in a meeting with USFK Commander Brooks).
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| June 20 | - The ROK government initiates the
procedures to render support for those companies in the
Gaeseong Industrial Complex that have suffered asset losses
and had not taken out economic cooperation insurance
policies. (in a regular briefing by a spokesperson for the
Ministry of Unification).
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| June 21 | - The ROK
government announces a watch-list of items concerning North
Korea as part of its sanctions against the North (in a
regular briefing by a spokesperson for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs).
- A total of 130 items (including
89 nuclear- and 41 missile-related items)
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| June 22 | - North
Korea fires two ballistic missiles from Wonsan.
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| June 22 |
- The ROK President emphasizes that the North Korean
regime should realize that reckless provocations will
eventually lead the North into complete isolation and
self-destruction (in unification dialogue with overseas
members of the National Unification Advisory Council).
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| June 22 | - The Blue House (Cheongwadae) holds a
standing committee session of the National Security Council
regarding North Korea’s ballistic missile launch (June
22).
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| June 22 | - The ROK government strongly condemns
North Korea’s Musudan missile launch (June 22) and sternly
warns that the North will face even tougher sanctions and
pressure from South Korea and the international community
(in a statement by a spokesperson for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs).
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| June
23 | - The Ministry of Unification
and the Korean Red Cross hold an event for separated
families (117 people from North Chungcheong Province).
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| June 23 | - The UN Security Council adopts a press
statement condemning North Korea’s ballistic missile launch
(June 22).
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| June 23 |
- North Korea claims that its
ballistic missile launch (June 22) represents “securing the
means to deliver nuclear warheads” and that the Six-Party
talks on the premise of denuclearization of the North are
meaningless (in a press conference by Deputy Director
General of Foreign Ministry’s North American Bureau Choi Sun
Hee). * North East Asia Cooperation
Dialogue (June 21-23 in Beijing)
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| June 24 | - North
Korea designates July 3 as the Day of Strategic Force (by a
decree of the Presidium of the Supreme People's
Assembly).
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| June 24 |
- North Korea denounces the ROK
government’s position on the June 15 Joint Declaration (June
13) as a mockery of the fundamental spirit of inter-Korean
agreements, declaring that it is an attempt to shift the
responsibility for the collapse in inter-Korean relations to
the North and to justify the South’s anti-North Korea policy
(in a Q&A session with KCNA reporters by a spokesperson
for the CPRF).
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| June 25 |
- Regarding the defected North
Korean restaurant workers’ refusal to appear in court, North
Korea calls for the “disclosure of their personal
information, a face-to-face meeting with family members, and
their repatriation,” and threatens that it will “make the
South pay the price for that by whatever means” (in a
statement by a spokesperson for the Central Committee of the
DPRK Red Cross Society).
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| June 27 | - The ROK
President emphasizes that we should show North Korea,
through tough sanctions and pressure, that South Korea’s and
the international community’s determination to stop the
North’s nuclear ambitions is much stronger than the North’s
determination to develop nuclear weapons and missiles (in a
chief secretary meeting at the Blue House).
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| June 27 | - North
Korea proposes a “joint conference” in Pyongyang or Gaeseong
on or around August 15 (in an open letter by the North Side
Preparatory Committee for the Joint Conference of Political
Parties, Organizations, and Individual Personages of the
North and the South and Abroad for Peace and Independent
Reunification of the Korean Peninsula).
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| June 28 | - The ROK
President asks the Sages Group on North Korean Human Rights
to play a role in improving human rights in North Korea (in
a meeting with the Sages Group on North Korean Human
Rights).
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| June 28 | - The ROK government denounces the open
letter proposing a joint conference (June 27) as an
“insincere aggressive posture” and confirms that North
Korea’s denuclearization should come first (in a commentary
by a spokesperson for the Ministry of Unification).
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| June 29 | - China expresses that it is definitely
against a nuclear North Korea (in a meeting between ROK
Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn and Chinese President Xi
Jin-ping).
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| June 29 |
- North Korea holds the fourth session
of the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang.
- Discuss six agenda such as establishing the State
Affairs Commission and electing Kim Jong Un as Chairman of
the State Affairs Commission; amending and supplementing the
Socialist Constitution of the DPRK; thoroughly carrying out
the five-year strategy for national economic development;
setting up the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of
the Country of the DPRK (CPRC) while disbanding the
Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (known as
the CPRF); and organizational matters
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| June 30 | - The UN holds
a debate to monitor the implementation of UNSC Resolution
2270 that imposes sanctions on North Korea.
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| June 30 | - North
Korea insists that “securing its pre-emptive nuclear strike
capability (having nuclear weapons, launching a Musudan
missile, etc.)” is not subject to negotiations and
emphasizes that the ROK and the U.S. should “change their
policy toward North Korea” (in a statement by a spokesperson
for the CPRC).
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