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Thu, 06/16/2011 - 05:52
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CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW
The following is a chronological review of major developments related to North Korea from June 9 to June 15, 2011.
June
9 An official from the North's National Defense Commission (NDC) threatens to disclose voice recordings of a secret meeting it had with South Korea in May, during which Seoul allegedly proposed holding a series of inter-Korean summits.
9 A North Korean delegation led by Yang Hyong-sop, vice president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), returns home from a goodwill visit to Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea.
9 The (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports that a steering committee of the China-North Korea Economic Trade Zone held meetings in the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin.
9 A group of nine North Korean family members cross the western sea border into South Korea on an engineless boat.
10 Strategic dialogue is held between the delegations of the ruling parties of North Korea and China at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang.
10 The KCNA reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and heir apparent Kim Jong-un watched a performance by the art groups of families of servicepersons of the (North) Korean People's Army (KPA) units 534, 529, 264 and 549.
11 Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun sends a message of greetings to Albert F. del Rosario, foreign minister of the Philippines, on the occasion of the 113th anniversary of its independence.
12 Kim Yong-nam, president of the SPA presidium, receives a delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) headed by Li Yuanchao, member of the Political Bureau and the Secretariat, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
12 Kim Yong-il, secretary of the North's Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, hold talks.
12 Kim Yong-nam sends a message of greetings to Dmitri Anatoliyevich Medvedev on the occasion of its national day.
12 Premier Choe Ryong-rim sends a message of greetings to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, prime minister of Russia, on the occasion of its national day.
13 The Rodong Sinmun, paper of the WPK, calls for the preservation of the inter-Korean declaration reached on June 15, 2000, and asserts that the current Seoul administration is making "desperate efforts to scrap" the agreement.
13 The 14th national taekwondo championship of the Jongil Peak Cup opens at the Volleyball Gymnasium on Chongchun Street in Pyongyang.
13 A delegation of the Swiss Foreign Ministry, led by Beat Nobs, deputy secretary of state, arrives in Pyongyang.
13 Kim Jong-il hosts a luncheon for the visiting delegation of the CPC. Also present are Kim Jong-un and other senior North Korean officials.
14 A national meeting is held at the Central Hall of Workers in Pyongyang to mark the 11th anniversary of the 2000 June 15 joint declaration.
14 An event is held to mark the World Blood Donor Day, participated by North Korean health officials as well as WHO and UNICEF representatives in Pyongyang.
14 Alfonso Galdi, director of the International Department of the Leftwing People's Party of Communists of Italy, arrives in Pyongyang.
15 The Rodong Sinmun, in an editorial marking the 11th anniversary of the first inter-Korean summit accord, calls for all Koreans to serve in the "sacred patriotic struggle" for reunification.
15 Pak Ui-chun receives a delegation of the Swiss Foreign Ministry led by Beat Nobs, deputy secretary of state, who paid a courtesy call on him.
15 Meetings of youths, students and agricultural workers are held to celebrate the 47th anniversary of Kim Jong-il's start of work at the Central Committee of the WPK
June
9 An official from the North's National Defense Commission (NDC) threatens to disclose voice recordings of a secret meeting it had with South Korea in May, during which Seoul allegedly proposed holding a series of inter-Korean summits.
9 A North Korean delegation led by Yang Hyong-sop, vice president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), returns home from a goodwill visit to Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea.
9 The (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports that a steering committee of the China-North Korea Economic Trade Zone held meetings in the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin.
9 A group of nine North Korean family members cross the western sea border into South Korea on an engineless boat.
10 Strategic dialogue is held between the delegations of the ruling parties of North Korea and China at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang.
10 The KCNA reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and heir apparent Kim Jong-un watched a performance by the art groups of families of servicepersons of the (North) Korean People's Army (KPA) units 534, 529, 264 and 549.
11 Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun sends a message of greetings to Albert F. del Rosario, foreign minister of the Philippines, on the occasion of the 113th anniversary of its independence.
12 Kim Yong-nam, president of the SPA presidium, receives a delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) headed by Li Yuanchao, member of the Political Bureau and the Secretariat, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.
12 Kim Yong-il, secretary of the North's Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, hold talks.
12 Kim Yong-nam sends a message of greetings to Dmitri Anatoliyevich Medvedev on the occasion of its national day.
12 Premier Choe Ryong-rim sends a message of greetings to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, prime minister of Russia, on the occasion of its national day.
13 The Rodong Sinmun, paper of the WPK, calls for the preservation of the inter-Korean declaration reached on June 15, 2000, and asserts that the current Seoul administration is making "desperate efforts to scrap" the agreement.
13 The 14th national taekwondo championship of the Jongil Peak Cup opens at the Volleyball Gymnasium on Chongchun Street in Pyongyang.
13 A delegation of the Swiss Foreign Ministry, led by Beat Nobs, deputy secretary of state, arrives in Pyongyang.
13 Kim Jong-il hosts a luncheon for the visiting delegation of the CPC. Also present are Kim Jong-un and other senior North Korean officials.
14 A national meeting is held at the Central Hall of Workers in Pyongyang to mark the 11th anniversary of the 2000 June 15 joint declaration.
14 An event is held to mark the World Blood Donor Day, participated by North Korean health officials as well as WHO and UNICEF representatives in Pyongyang.
14 Alfonso Galdi, director of the International Department of the Leftwing People's Party of Communists of Italy, arrives in Pyongyang.
15 The Rodong Sinmun, in an editorial marking the 11th anniversary of the first inter-Korean summit accord, calls for all Koreans to serve in the "sacred patriotic struggle" for reunification.
15 Pak Ui-chun receives a delegation of the Swiss Foreign Ministry led by Beat Nobs, deputy secretary of state, who paid a courtesy call on him.
15 Meetings of youths, students and agricultural workers are held to celebrate the 47th anniversary of Kim Jong-il's start of work at the Central Committee of the WPK
