| November 1 | - The ROK
President states the five principles in dealing with issues
involving the Korean Peninsula during his address to the
National Assembly.
- - Establishing peace on the
Korean Peninsula; denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula;
asserting Korea’s primary role in resolving the inter-Korean
issue; resolving the North Korean nuclear issue peacefully;
and sternly responding to any North Korean provocation.
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| November 3 | - ROK President Moon says that “At the
moment, we can’t talk about the suspension of ROK-US joint
military exercises. The discussion could only come after
North Korea stops its provocations” (in an exclusive
interview with Singapore’s Channel NewsAsia. It is aired on
November 12-13).
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| November
3 | - The Korea Asia-Pacific Peace
Committee of the DPRK turns down Hyundai Asan Corp.’s
request to hold a ceremony marking the 19th anniversary of
the opening of a now-suspended Mt. Geumgang tour program,
saying that “It is still difficult to hold such
ceremony.”
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| November 6 |
- The ROK government puts 18 North
Korean individuals on its blacklist as part of its
unilateral sanctions (The people on the new list include
heads and high-ranking officials of five North Korean banks
stationed in other countries who have been blacklisted by
the UN Security Council).
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| November 7 | - US President
Trump and ROK President Moon hold a summit meeting and a
joint press conference.
- - Resolving the North
Korean nuclear issue in a peaceful manner; ROK-US alliance’s
stern response to any additional North Korean provocations;
and willing to offer North Korea a bright future should it
choose to make the right choice.
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| November 8 | - US President
Trump calls on the international community to join the
efforts to put pressure on North Korea and presents
preconditions for dialogue with the North including an end
to the aggression of the regime, a stop to its development
of ballistic missiles, and complete, verifiable, and total
denuclearization (in his address to the ROK National
Assembly).
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| November 8 |
- The North Korean ambassador to
the UN in Geneva argues that the sanctions imposed by major
powers are taking a toll on vulnerable people in the North
and that they are unfair at a general meeting of the UN
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women.
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| November 10 |
- The ROK Ministry of Unification
announces support measures for the Gaeseong Industrial
Complex (GIC) tenant companies and companies involved in
inter-Korean economic cooperation projects.
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| November 10 |
- Regarding the request from officials of the GIC tenant
companies for permission to visit North Korea, North Korea’s
state-run website Uriminzokkiri condemns the ROK
government’s request for the guarantee of their personal
security and safe passage (October 24) as a “scheme to
mislead public opinion and shameless sophistry.”
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| November 11 |
- ROK President Moon Jae-in and China’s Xi Jinping meet on
the sidelines during an APEC summit in Vietnam.
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The leaders agree on peaceful resolution of the North Korean
nuclear issue through dialogue and on bilateral
communication and cooperation to address the issue.
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| November 11 | - In response to US President Trump’s
address to the National Assembly, a spokesperson for the
North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement,
argues that he “demonized our country, which pushes us to
speed up the efforts to accomplish the great cause of
completing the state nuclear force.”
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| November 11 | - The ROK
Foreign Minister, in an interview with Bloomberg, emphasizes
that “North Korea in the first instance needs to stop its
provocations, period” and calls on the North to “send a sign
of change” (It is aired on November 13).
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| November 13 | - A
North Korean soldier who suffered critical gunshot wounds at
the Joint Security Area during a defection dash over the
border to South Korea is taken to a hospital.
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| November 13 |
- The North Korean ambassador to the UN delivers UN
Secretary-General António Guterres a letter condemning the
ROK-US joint navy drills (November 11-14).
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| November 14 | - The
UN General Assembly adopts a resolution calling on all
nations to halt all disputes and hostilities during the
PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
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| November 14 | - - Urging member states to observe the
Olympic Truce individually and collectively within the
framework of the Charter of the United Nations throughout
the PyeongChang Olympic period, from February 2, 2018, seven
days before the opening ceremony, until March 25, 2018, a
week after the end of the Paralympic Games.
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| November 14 |
- Regarding the adoption of the Olympic Truce, the ROK
Ministry of Unification says that “We hope that the North
will decide on its participation as soon as possible and the
two Koreas could frankly discuss a range of issues to make
the games a Peace Olympics.”
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| November 14 | - The ROK
government calls on North Korea to take measures to improve
human rights conditions regarding the UN Commission on Human
Rights’ adoption of a North Korean human rights resolution
(in a commentary by a spokesperson for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs).
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| November
14 | - The ROK President says that
“It will likely be North Korea first freezing its nuclear
program and then moving onto complete dismantlement, and if
that happens, I believe we and the international community
may discuss what we can do in return” (at a press conference
for South Korean journalists during his tour to Southeast
Asia).
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| November 17 |
- At a meeting in Jeju, the chief
delegates to the Six-Party Talks of the ROK and the US defer
the assessment of a lull in provocations while focusing on
pressure to induce North Korea to come to the dialogue
table.
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| November 17 |
- The North Korean ambassador to the
UN in Geneva says in an interview with Reuters that “As long
as there is continuous hostile policy against my country by
the US and as long as there are continued war-games at our
doorstep, then there will not be negotiations.”
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| November 20 |
- The North Korean ambassador to Thailand says in an
interview with The Nation that “Negotiations could only take
place when Washington agrees to drop its plan of aggression
against North Korea.”
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| November 20 | - US President
Trump redesignates North Korea as a state sponsor of
terrorism.
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| November 21 |
- The ROK government reports “Moon
Jae-in’s Korean Peninsula Policy.”
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| November 22 | - Choi
In-guk, the second son of Ryu Mi Yong, a deceased chairwoman
of the Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party,
visits the North to attend his mother’s memorial ceremony
marking the first anniversary of her death and to visit her
grave.
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| November 21 |
- The US Treasury Department unveils a
statement on additional unilateral sanctions against North
Korea.
- - Imposing sanctions on 20 shipping vessels,
13 entities, and one individual.
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| November 22 | - The UN
Command releases the findings of its investigation into a
North Korean soldier’s defection to South Korea (November
13) through the Joint Security Area of the demilitarized
zone.
- - Announcing that North Korea violated the
Armistice Agreement twice (North Korean troops fired on the
defector south of the DMZ and North Korean soldiers crossed
the military demarcation line), informing the North Korean
military of the violations, and calling for a meeting to
establish countermeasures.
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| November 25 | - The ROK
government says that “As a member of the IOC, North Korea is
responsible for making a contribution to the Olympics, the
festival of peace, separately from the political situation”
(by Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha during her visit to
Pyeongchang with a group of ambassadors to South
Korea).
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| November 29 |
- The North Korean government
announces that it launched an intercontinental ballistic
missile from Pyongsong, South Pyongan Province around 3:18
a.m. and that the missile reached a peak altitude of 4,475
kilometers and flew 950 kilometers.
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| November 29 | - The ROK
government issues a statement in response to North Korea’s
intercontinental ballistic missile launch.
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Strongly condemning North Korea’s provocations; calling on
the North to give up its nuclear and missile development
program and to desist from further acts that increase
tensions; and declaring a stern response based on ROK-US
combined defense readiness.
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| November 29 | - In their
telephone call, the leaders of the ROK and the US discuss
ways to cooperate with each other in response to North
Korea’s missile launch.
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| November 29 | - In their
telephone call, the leaders of the ROK and Japan emphasize
the role of China in implementing sanctions against North
Korea.
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| November 29 |
- The North Korean government releases
a statement at 12:30 p.m. that the country has successfully
launched the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile
and completed the state nuclear force.
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| November 29 | - The
UN Security Council holds an emergency meeting in response
to North Korea’s latest missile launch.
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| November 29 | - The
National Memorial Hall for Korean War Abductees opens to the
general public in Paju, Gyeonggi Province.
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| November 30 | - In
their telephone call, the leaders of the ROK and the US
discuss response measures including maximum pressure on
North Korea.
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