| November 1 | - Seoul and
Washington hold a discussion on the overall North Korean
issues including the North Korean nuclear issue (in a
meeting between the chief delegates to the Six-Party Talks
from the ROK and the U.S., in Seoul).
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| November 10 | - The ROK
President assesses the ROK-U.S. alliance and asks for close
bilateral cooperation in order to restrain and sternly
respond to the North’s attempted provocations while pointing
out that the North Korean nuclear issue is the greatest
threat to both countries (in a telephone call with U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump).
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| November 11 | - The number
of North Korean defectors in the ROK exceeds 30,000
(30,005).
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| November 14 |
- The Unification Minister
emphasizes that Seoul and Washington should make peaceful
unification on the Korean Peninsula based on a strong
ROK-U.S. alliance their common goal in policy on North
Korea, and will continue to work together to achieve
sustainable peace on the Korean Peninsula, as well as the
denuclearization and change of the North (in his keynote
speech at Korea Global Forum 2016).
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| November 17 | - North
Korea condemns the South’s signing of a preliminary version
of the ROK-Japan General Security of Military Information
Agreement as “an anti-national act” (in a statement by a
spokesperson for the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace
Committee).
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| November 17 |
- North Korea rejects the UN human
rights resolution against North Korea adopted on November 15
by the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly (in a
press release by North Korea’s Permanent Representative to
the U.N.).
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| November 21 |
- North Korea declares that it has
decided to pursue nuclear armament for self-defense in
response to the U.S.’s hostile policy toward Pyongyang and
nuclear threat, calling for the withdrawal of such policies
toward the DPRK (in a memorandum by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs).
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| November 25 |
- MIKTA (Mexico, Indonesia,
Republic of Korea, Turkey, and Australia) denounces North
Korea’s nuclear test and ballistic missile launch as
violations of international obligations and as acts that
undermine the international order based on the UN Charter
(in a joint statement at the 8th meeting of MIKTA Foreign
Ministers).
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| November 25 |
- North Korea condemns the signing
of the General Security of Military Information Agreement
between South Korea and Japan as “an unacceptable hostile
act” and threatens that it will bolster its defensive
military posture based on nuclear strike capability (in a
statement by a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs).
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| November 27 |
- The ROK government announces its
new “social inclusion” policy for North Korean defectors to
help them firmly settle in the South (in a press release by
the Ministry of Unification). 1)
Facilitating settlement (running a course for life and
career planning, increasing funding for settlement and
housing support, etc.) 2)
Increasing employment (increasing the employment of North
Korean defectors in the public sector, improving skills
training, reforming the asset-building system, and
considering workplaces in housing support) 3) Strengthening education support (offering
dedicated coordinators and mentors, running leadership
training programs and preliminary college courses, and
rendering support for children born in a third
country) 4) Strengthening
cooperation system (reorganizing the Consultative Council
to Deal with Dislocated North Koreans, making the Hana
Center a center for North Korean defectors, and setting up
an online portal for North Korean defectors) 5)
Raising awareness and strengthening communication (building
the Unification Cultural Center and the Unification Food
Culture Town, implementing one-to-one sponsorships,
etc.)
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| November 29 |
- The Center for North Korean Human
Rights Records conducts a pilot survey of North Korean
defectors on the human rights situation in North Korea.
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| November 30 | - The UN Security Council adopts
Resolution 2321 condemning North Korea’s 5th nuclear test
(September 9). 1) Imposing new sanctions
and strengthening current sanctions (making them
compulsory and deleting exceptions) 2) Warning North Korea that it may lose its UN
membership for the first time 3) Directing
attention to the overseas North Korean workers issue,
etc.
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