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2012 |
| Apr.9 |
Airlines to avoid N Korea rocket. Japan
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2015 |
| Jul.3 |
North Korean farmers face dry fields amid drought The farmers work to pump underground water into fields. Instead of rice seedlings standing in flooded paddies, the baked earth is cracked
2010 |
| Nov.16 |
N Korea facing hunger due to grain deficit UN: About 5 million North Koreans will continue to face food shortages. The government plans to import only 325,000 metric tons
2005 |
| Jul.11 |
Seoul boosts food aid to N. Korea South Korea: South agreed to provide the North with 500,000 tons in rice aid as the countries vowed to boost economic ties
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2007 |
| Dec.10 |
Inter-Korean train service starts South Korea: The first cargo train providing regular service across the border between the two Koreas in more than a half century left for the North
| May.16 |
Korean trains in historic link-up
A pair of passenger trains have crossed the heavily fortified border for the first time in more than 50 years
2003 |
| Jun.13 |
Railway reconnects two Koreas Workers have reconnected railway lines between the countries in a special ceremony, the first time in 50 years
2002 |
| Sep.17 |
Work began on railway to link Koreas South Korea: Both countres expressed hope the monumental project would bring peace to their divided peninsula
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2013 |
| Mar.11 |
US expands North Korea sanctions. Washington
2009 |
| Apr.9 |
Japan to extend N Korea sanctions Japan's government has decided to extend economic sanctions for another year over N Korea recent rocket launch
2006 |
| Oct.14 |
U.N. slaps sanctions on North Korea 
UN Security Council: The Council voted unanimously to slap trade, travel and other sanctions
The vote had been delayed because of concerns by China and Russia. The US has revised its draft to remove the threat of military action and reduced the total embargo on military equipment
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2002 |
| Nov.14 |
Oil shipments to N Korea frozen The U. S. and its East Asian and European allies have voted to suspend fuel deliveries to the Communist nation
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2013 |
| Jan.3 |
Google chairman Schmidt to visit N. Korea. San Francisco Bay Area
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2013 |
| Sep.15 |
Two Koreas begin Kaesong restart
| Aug.14 |
North, South Korea agree to reopen Kaesong complex
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2013 |
| Dec.15 |
North Korean execution 'will not alter trade goals'
North Korea's execution of senior figure Chang Song-thaek will not alter its economic goals, an official said
2010 |
| May.23 |
S. Korea suspends trade with N. Korea 
South Korea: South Korea is suspending trade with North Korea, closing its waters to the North's ships and adopting a newly aggressive military posture | |
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2015 |
| Apr.7 |
Activist launches balloons w. 'The Interview' DVDs to North Korea South Korea: A South Korean activist launched balloons carrying thousands of DVDs of a movie depicting a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong...
2014 |
| Dec.20 |
N Korea seeks joint Sony hack probe
N Korea has offered to hold a joint inquiry with the US into a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, strongly denying US claims that it is behind it
| Dec.19 |
Sony 'will not drop' North Korea film The Interview
Los Angeles: Sony Pictures says it is looking at different ways to release the film satire, after scrapping its opening following a cyber-attack blamed on N. Korea
| Dec.17 |
Sony cancels The Interview release Los Angeles: Sony Pictures cancels 25 December release of North Korea film The Interview after cinemas decide not to screen it | |
| Dec.1 |
N Korea refuses to deny Sony hack
North Korea has refused to deny involvement in a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures that came ahead of the release of a film about leader Kim Jon...
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2013 |
| Jun.3 |
N Korea reactor ‘near completion’
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2014 |
| Dec.22 |
North Korea partially back online
Some internet services have been restored in N Korea after an almost unprecedented internet outage, amid a cyber security row with the US
| Dec.22 |
Internet crashes in North Korea North Korea has been suffering severe internet outages, with one analyst saying the country's access to the web was entirely cut | |
2010 |
| Apr.6 |
Red Star operating system details emerge
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2016 |
| Feb.11 |
North Korea to cut hotlines with South amid Kaesong shutdown
Seoul suspended its operations at the jointly-run Kaesong industrial complex in the North. North Korea has vowed to cut communication hotlin...
2013 |
| Apr.26 |
S Korea 'withdraws from joint complex'
| Apr.8 |
N. Korea pulling workers out of joint industrial zone North Korea said that it would pull out all its workers and temporarily suspend operations at the industrial complex it jointly operates with...
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2017 |
| Dec.29 |
South Korea seizes ship it claims transferred oil to North Korea 
South Korea has seized a Hong Kong-registered ship that allegedly transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in violation of United Nations sanctions | |
2007 |
| Jul.13 |
N. Korea receives oil shipment North Korea has started unloading the first shipment of oil to be delivered under a key nuclear disarmament deal