| March
1 | - Acting President and Prime
Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn reaffirms the government’s keynote
policy of applying full pressure and sanctions on North
Korea (in a speech marking the March 1st Independence
Movement).
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| March 1 |
- The ROK and the US carry out joint
military exercises (March 1-April 30).
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| March 1 | - North
Korea criticizes the ROK-US joint military drills and
threatens to take an ultra-hardline countermeasure (in a
statement by a spokesperson for the General Staff Department
of the Korean People’s Army (KPA)
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| March 2 | - Regarding the
statement by a spokesperson for the General Staff Department
of the KPA (March 1), the ROK military emphasizes that if
North Korea carries out any provocation, the South will not
hesitate to mete out stern punishment (in a regular briefing
by the Chief of Public Affairs of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff).
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| March 3 | - Seoul and Beijing discuss the situation
on the Korean Peninsula and the North Korea and North Korean
nuclear issues (in a telephone call between the chief
delegates to the Six-Party Talks from the ROK and
China).
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| March 3 | - North Korea strongly criticizes the ROK
President and instigates an anti-government campaign (in a
statement by a spokesperson for the Policy Department of the
Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country of
the DPRK (CPRC)
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| March 5 |
- Regarding the statement by a
spokesperson for the Policy Department of the CPRC (March
3), the ROK government condemns the North’s political
intervention (the Unification Ministry’s position).
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| March 6 | - North Korea fires four ballistic
missiles (confirmed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a
regular briefing by the Ministry of National Defense).
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| March 6 | - The ROK government declares North
Korea’s ballistic missile launch (March 6) to be a violation
of the UN Security Council resolutions and a threat to the
peace and security of the Korean Peninsula and the
international community and strongly condemns the North (in
a statement on North Korea’s ballistic missile launch by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
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| March 19 | - North Korea
makes public its ground test of a new high-power rocket
engine (in a KCNA report).
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| March 26 | - North Korea
denounces the US Special Forces’ engagement in the ROK-US
joint military exercises (in a warming by a spokesperson for
the General Staff Department of the KPA).
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| March 26 |
- Regarding the warning by a spokesperson for the General
Staff Department of the KPA, the ROK military warns that it
will sternly punish the North for any provocation and lead
the North Korean regime to self-destruction (the Joint
Chiefs of Staff’s position).
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| March 27 | - North Korea
distorts and criticizes the ROK government’s policy
including the Unification Minister’s remarks on North Korea
(in a statement by a spokesperson for the Policy Department
of the CPRC).
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| March 27 |
- Regarding the statement by a
spokesperson for the Policy Department of the CPRC (March
27), the ROK government urges the North to refrain from
making distorted claims and criticism and to strive to
resolve the problems (in a regular briefing by a
spokesperson for the Ministry of Unification).
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| March 28 |
- The ROK government approves the report on the North
Korean national ice hockey team’s visit to South Korea to
participate in the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World
Championship (Ministry of Unification).
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