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North Korea Date South Korea
The ROK Special envoy visits North Korea
March 5, (March 5 - 6, direct sea route over the West Sea)
2018 * Chung Eui-yong, director, National Security Office; Suh
Hoon, director, National Intelligence Service
The ROK Special envoy to North Korea announces the
result of the visit
* ˝Holding an Inter-Korean summit; ˞Installing hotline
March 6, between the two leaders; ˟North Korea’s commitment
to denuclearize; ˠNorth Korea’s willingness to have a
2018
dialogue with the U.S.; ˡCessation of missile
provocations and non-use of nuclear and conventional
weapons against the ROK; ˢThe ROK Taekwondo and
performance groups’ visit to North Korea
March 25,
Chairman Kim Jong-un’s first visit to China (March 25 - 28)
2018
April 1, The ROK and the U.S. begin KR/FE combined exercises
2018 * KR: April 23 - May 4, FE: April 1- 26
Chairman Kim Jong-un presides over a Central
Committee Bureau of Politics meeting April 9,
* Officially mentions holding an Inter-Korean summit and 2018
talks with the U.S. for the first time
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13 Supreme People’s Assembly holds the sixth meeting
A Central Report Meeting celebrating the sixth anniversary
April 11,
of Chairman Kim Jong-un’s inauguration
2018
* Choi Ryong-hae mentions “a military superpower and a
strategic nation status”
Seventh Central Committee’s third plenary
meeting; adopts a resolution
* €Nuclear ˝Weaponize nuclear weapons ˞Cease
nuclear and missile tests ˟Join international efforts for
nuclear disarmament ˠNon-use and nonproliferation of April 20,
nuclear powerˡFocus on the economy and public 2018
welfare ˢParticipate in talks in international community
* €Economy ˝Focus on economy ˞Enhance the roles of
institutions ˟Manage implementation of decisions ˠ
Take substantive measures
North Korea suspends loudspeaker propaganda April 23, The ROK discontinued loudspeaker propaganda
broadcasts toward the ROK 2018 broadcasts toward the North
The 2018 Inter-Korean Summit; adopts the Panmunjom
Declaration
* €Inter-Korean Relationship Self-reliance, talks indifferent
areas, promotion of exchanges and cooperation,
reunion of separated families, connection of railroads
April 27, and roads
2018 * €Military Cessation of hostilities; transformation of DMZ
into a peace zone; maritime peace zone in West Sea;
general officer-level talks in May
* €Denuclearization and Peace Nonaggression, phased
disarmament, end of a war declaration, and complete
denuclearization
“Disclosed dismantling of nuclear test sites; unify time
zones to Seoul Standard Time” April 29,
2018
* April 27: disclosed remarks made during the Summit

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