| August 5 | - The UN
Security Council adopts Resolution 2371 in response to North
Korea’s ballistic missile provocations (perpetrated on July
4 and July 28).
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| August
7 | - North Korea denounces UNSC
Resolution 2371 as “a product of the US heinous moves to
stifle the DPRK,” “a flagrant infringement upon its
sovereignty,” and “an open challenge to it,” and “completely
rejects the resolution and threatens to retaliate against it
one thousand times” (in a statement by the DPRK
government).
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| August 8 |
- North Korea condemns the US’s
rhetoric about “military options” and the US’s plan to
deploy strategic assets on the Korean Peninsula, and
threatens a military response (in a statement by a
spokesperson for the General Staff Department of the Korean
People’s Army (KPA)).
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| August
10 | - The Joint Chiefs of Staff
announces a statement condemning North Korea’s threat to
turn South Korea and the US into “a sea of fire.
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| August 11 |
- The ROK government repatriates the North Korean resident
rescued in the West Sea (via Panmunjeom).
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| August 15 | - The ROK
President urges North Korea to stop provocations immediately
and come forward for dialogue, and proposes to the North
again that both Koreas start with easy tasks first including
reunions of separated families and making the PyeongChang
2018 Olympic Winter Games a good opportunity for
inter-Korean dialogue (in his congratulatory speech for the
72nd anniversary of national liberation).
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| August 17 | - The ROK
President says that North Korea is getting closer to the
threshold of the red line and that conditions for dialogue
can be created when North Korea desists from further
provocations at the very least (in a press conference
marking his first 100 days in office).
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| August 21-31 | - The
ROK and the US conduct Ulchi-Freedom Guardian (UFG) military
exercises from August 21 to 31.
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| August 22 | - North Korea
blasts the UFG as “a war rehearsal for invading North Korea”
(in a statement by a spokesperson for the Panmunjom mission
of the KPA).
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| August 26 |
- North Korea fires three
short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) into the East
Sea.
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| August 29 | - North Korea fires an intermediate-range
ballistic missile (IRBM).
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| August 29 | - The ROK
government condemns North Korea’s ballistic missile launch
(in a statement on North Korea’s ballistic missile launch by
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
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| August 29 | - The Joint
Chiefs of Staff announces a statement concerning North
Korea’s missile launch.
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| August 30 | - The UN
Security Council unanimously adopts a statement condemning
North Korea’s missile launch.
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| August 31 | - North Korea
denounces South Korean reporters and newspapers for
committing a hideous crime of seriously insulting the
dignity of the DPRK and threatens that those who insulted
the dignity of the DPRK for anti-state purposes shall be
“punished any moment and at any place without going through
any additional procedures” (in a statement by a spokesperson
for the DPRK Central Court).
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| August 31 | - Regarding the
statement by a spokesperson for the DPRK Central Court
(August 31), the ROK government strongly condemns North
Korea’s threats to reporting activities of South Korean
journalists (in a statement by a spokesperson for the
Ministry of Unification).
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