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2 Koreas to hold 2nd summit Aug. 28-30 in Pyongyang

SEOUL, South Korea - Chief presidential National Security Adviser Baek Jong Cheon (R) announces in Seoul on Aug. 8 that North and South Korea have agreed to hold their second summit Aug. 28-30 in Pyongyang. At left is S. Korea's Unification Minister Lee Jae Joung.

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2 Koreas to hold 2nd summit Aug. 28-30 in Pyongyang

SEOUL, South Korea - Chief presidential National Security Adviser Baek Jong Cheon announces in Seoul on Aug. 8 that North and South Korea have agreed to hold their second summit Aug. 28-30 in Pyongyang. The scheduled summit between S. Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il will be the second one following the previous one held between then S. Korean President Kim Dae Jung and N. Korean leader Kim in June 2000 in Pyongyang.

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Reunion of war-separated kin of two Koreas

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 22 Kyodo - North Korean women see off family members living in South Korea after being separated from by the 1950-1953 Korean War, following a divided family reunion event at Mt. Kumgang, a resort on the southeastern coast of North Korea, on Aug. 22, 2018. (Pool photo)

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The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders

SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 4 Kyodo - The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders stand guard on Jul. 27, 2017 in front of North Korea's main building, in a joint security area at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village.

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The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders

SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 4 Kyodo - The U.S.-led United Nations Command solders stand guard on Jul. 27, 2017 in front of North Korea's main building, in a joint security area at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village.

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South Korean soldiers stand guard

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 4 Kyodo - South Korean soldiers stand guard on Sept. 30, 2017 in front of North Korea's main building in a joint security area at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village.

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A South Korean soldier

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 4 Kyodo - A South Korean soldier (front) stands face-to-face with a North Korean soldier on July 27, 2017 at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village.

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N. Korea-S. Korea border

SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 4 Kyodo - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (front 2 from L) and South Korean Defense Minister Song Young Moo (front L) visit the border village of Panmunjeom in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas on Oct. 27, 2017.

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N. Koreans enjoy 2nd day of pro wrestling exhibition

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Koreas cheer for a wrestler during the final day of a pro wrestling event at a gymnasium in Pyongyang on Aug. 31, 2014. It was co-organized by Japanese Diet member Antonio Inoki.

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2 Koreas begin 2nd round of high-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean delegation, led by Kim Kyou Hyun (2nd from L), head of the secretariat of the National Security Council, is pictured in Seoul on Feb. 14, 2014, as it heads for a second round of high-level talks with North Korean officials at the border village of Panmunjeom. The two Koreas are discussing a broad range of bilateral issues including reunions of families separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War.

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Inter-Korean high-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Kyou Hyun (C), head of the South Korean delegation, gives a press conference in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2014, before heading for the border village of Panmunjeom to hold high-level talks with North Korean officials. The two Koreas held the first high-level meeting in seven years.

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Inter-Korean high-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Kyou Hyun (R), head of the South Korean delegation, shakes hands with South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2014, before heading for the border village of Panmunjeom to hold high-level talks with North Korean officials. The two Koreas held their first high-level meeting in seven years.

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Inter-Korean high-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Kyou Hyun (L), head of the South Korean delegation, meets with South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae (R) in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2014, before heading for the border village of Panmunjeom to hold high-level talks with North Korean officials. The two Koreas held their first high-level meeting in seven years.

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2 Koreas to hold family reunions Feb. 20-25

SEOUL, South Korea - Lee Duk Haeng, head of the South Korean working-level delegation on family reunions, speaks at the Unification Ministry in Seoul on Feb. 5, 2014, after a meeting with the North Korean delegation on the North Korean side of the border village of Panmunjom. The two Koreas agreed to hold another round of reunions of families separated since the 1950-1953 Korean War from Feb. 20 to 25.

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Kaesong trial operations begin

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean vehicles heading to a joint industrial zone in the North Korean border town of Kaesong are pictured at an inter-Korean transit office in Dorasan, South Korea, on Sept. 16, 2013. The two Koreas reopened the industrial zone on a trial basis the same day, five months after it was closed amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

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Kaesong trial operations begin

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Ki Woong, South Korea's chief delegate heading to talks with the North Korean side in a joint industrial in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, is pictured at an inter-Korean transit office in Dorasan, South Korea, on Sept. 16, 2013. The two Koreas reopened the industrial zone on a trial basis the same day, five months after it was closed amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

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Kaesong trial operations begin

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean managers and workers heading to a joint industrial zone in the North Korean border town of Kaesong are pictured at an inter-Korean transit office in Dorasan, South Korea, on Sept. 16, 2013. The two Koreas reopened the industrial zone on a trial basis the same day, five months after it was closed amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

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Kaesong trial operations begin

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean vehicles heading to a joint industrial zone in the North Korean border town of Kaesong are pictured at an inter-Korean transit office in Dorasan, South Korea, on Sept. 16, 2013. The two Koreas reopened the industrial zone on a trial basis the same day, five months after it was closed amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

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2 Koreas agree to reopen joint industrial zone on Sept. 16

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Ki Woong, a senior official of South Korea's Unification Ministry, holds a press conference in Seoul on Sept. 11, 2013. The ministry said the same day that North and South Korea have agreed to resume operations at the shuttered joint industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong from Sept. 16.

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2 Koreas agree to reopen joint industrial zone on Sept. 16

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Ki Woong, a senior official of South Korea's Unification Ministry, holds a press conference in Seoul on Sept. 11, 2013. The ministry said the same day that North and South Korea have agreed to resume operations at the shuttered joint industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong from Sept. 16.

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Motorcyclists cross Korean DMZ

SEOUL, South Korea - A group of five New Zealand motorcyclists are pictured on a road in Paju, South Korea, on Aug. 29, 2013, after traveling from North Korea crossing the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas. Both Koreas granted permission for the journey.

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2 Koreas begin talks on joint industrial zone

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken in Seoul on Aug. 14, 2013, shows South Korea's Kim Ki Woong (C) heading for a seventh round of talks with North Korean officials in a joint industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong. North and South Korea began working-level talks later in the day on normalizing operations at the industrial zone that have remained suspended for nearly four months.

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U.S. envoy says no plan for talks with N. Korea now

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy. Davies said in an event in Washington on June 14, 2013, there is no plan for bilateral talks on North Korea's nuclear programs for now and that relations between the two countries would make little progress without improvement in dialogues between South and North Koreas.

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2 Koreas hold working-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Chun Hae Sung (C), a senior official of South Korea's Unification Ministry, holds a press conference in Seoul on June 9, 2013, ahead of talks between working-level officials from North and South Korea on the South Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjeom the same day.

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2 Koreas hold working-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Chun Hae Sung, a senior official of South Korea's Unification Ministry, is pictured in Seoul on June 9, 2013, as he heads for the South Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjeom for talks between working-level officials from North and South Korea the same day.

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N. Koreas says Kim Jong Un ordered launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - The Dec. 14, 2012, edition of the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, carries a photo on its front page of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (top) ordering the launch of a "satellite" on Dec. 12 as well as a photo of his handwriting that says the party leadership "approves a satellite launch."

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U.S., S. Korea stage live-fire drill near N. Korea border

SEOUL, South Korea - The U.S. and South Korean armed forces stage a major live-fire drill near South Korea's border with North Korea on June 22, 2012, to mark the 62nd anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The drill, the largest since the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War, was held at a shooting range in Pocheon near the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas.

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Balloons carrying chocolate pies

SEOUL, South Korea - A group of people who are living in South Korea after escaping North Korea release into the air toward North Korea huge balloons carrying chocolate pies on South Korea's Ganghwa Island near the military demarcation line between the two Koreas on April 24, 2012.

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Joint concert of 2 Koreas in Paris

PARIS, France - South Korean conductor Chung Myung Whun (R front) and two conductors of North Korea's Unhasu Orchestra receive applause from the audience in Paris on March 14, 2012, after a joint performance by the North Korean orchestra and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of France.

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Joint concert of 2 Koreas in Paris

PARIS, France - South Korean conductor Chung Myung Whun (C) receives applause from the audience in Paris on March 14, 2012, after a joint performance by North Korea's Unhasu Orchestra and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of France.

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N. Korea border area

SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean soldier looks through binoculars in Panmunjom on the North Korean side of the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas on Dec. 22, 2011. The figure in front is a South Korean soldier standing on the South Korean side.

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2 Koreas divided over terms for restarting 6-party talks

BEIJING, China - North Korea's chief nuclear envoy Ri Yong Ho speaks to reporters after meeting his South Korean counterpart Wi Sung Lac in Beijing on Sept. 21, 2011. South Korean officials said the envoys remained at odds over terms for resuming the six-party talks on the North's nuclear programs.

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2 Koreas divided over terms for restarting 6-party talks

BEIJING, China - South Korea's chief nuclear envoy Wi Sung Lac speaks to reporters after meeting his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong Ho in Beijing on Sept. 21, 2011. South Korean officials said the envoys remained at odds over terms for resuming the six-party talks on the North's nuclear programs.

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Orchestras of 2 Koreas to hold joint performances

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean orchestra conductor Chung Myung Whun speaks during a press conference in Seoul on Sept. 16, 2011, after returning from a trip to North Korea. Chung said has agreed with North Korean officials to push for regular joint performances by the two Koreas' symphony orchestras.

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N., S. Korea joint Buddhist service

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Buddhist monks from North (L) and South Korea (R) pray for the reunification of the two Koreas during a joint service at Pohyon Temple on Mt. Myohyang in North Korea on Sept. 5, 2011.

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N., S. Korea joint Buddhist service

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Buddhist monks from North Korea (L) and South Korea (R) jointly held a service to pray for the reunification of the two Koreas at Pohyon Temple on Mt. Myohyang in North Korea on Sept. 5, 2011.

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Foreign ministers of 2 Koreas chat

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - South Korean foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan (L back) and his North Korean counterpart Pak Ui Chun chat while taking the escalator together in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on July 23, 2011. They spoke briefly before and during a coffee break of a meeting of the 27-member ASEAN Regional Forum.

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2 Koreas hold high-level talks in Bali

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho (C) is pictured on July 22, 2011, in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, after holding talks there earlier in the day with Wi Sung Lac, South Korea's chief delegate to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs.

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2 Koreas hold high-level talks in Bali

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho (C) speaks with reporters on July 22, 2011, in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

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2 Koreas hold high-level talks in Bali

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Wi Sung Lac (front), South Korea's chief delegate to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs, is pictured on July 22, 2011, in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, after holding talks there earlier in the day with North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho.

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2 Koreas in volcano talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows the chief of the South Korean delegation (front) who arrived at South Korea's Munsan after holding talks with a North Korean team at the North Korean city Kaesong on a potential volcanic eruption at Mt. Paektu on the North's border with China. During the day's meeting, the two Koreas agreed to hold experts' talks in May in Pyongyang or a convenient location on the risk of such an eruption and to make an on-site survey of the mountain in mid-June, according to Yonhap News Agency.

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2 Koreas lay groundwork for high-level military talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Three representatives of the South Korean military on Feb. 8, 2011, stand in front of a Unification Ministry building in Seoul ahead of their departure for the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjeom to discuss with their North Korean counterparts details for a proposed meeting of high-level defense officials between South and North Korea. The colonel-level talks are the first inter-Korean meeting since the North's deadly artillery attack on a South Korean border island in November 2010.

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Panmunjeon tour resumed

SEOUL, South Korea - An officer of the North Korean People's Army stands guard at the Panmunjeom truce village Dec. 7, 2010. A tour of the area between the Koreas was resumed for the first time since a North Korean artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island.

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Pyongyang after island attack

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Yong Hwang (L), a professor of linguistics at Kim Il Sung University, watches a recap of a parade of the North Korean People's Army in October on TV at his home in Pyongyang on Nov. 28, 2010. Kim, seated next to his granddaughter So Yon, criticized the United States for using an artillery exchange between the two Koreas as an excuse to send the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington to the Yellow Sea.

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Two Koreas talk over family reunions

PAJU, South Korea - Red Cross officials from South Korea finish a discussion with North Korean counterparts over temporary reunions of separated families at an office in Paju on Sept. 17, 2010. The two sides agreed to meet again Sept. 24 to try to fix the date and venue.

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Two Koreas talk over family reunions

PAJU, South Korea - Red Cross officials from South Korea talk to reporters after meeting with North Korean counterparts over temporary reunions of separated families at an office in Paju on Sept. 17, 2010. The two sides agreed to meet again Sept. 24 to try to fix the date and venue.

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Gates, Clinton to visit DMZ dividing 2 Koreas

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates addresses troops at Camp Casey, a U.S. base in South Korea near the tense Demilitarized Zone that divides the Korean Peninsula, on July 20, 2010. Gates said he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would visit the zone the following day.

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2 Koreas hold working-level talks on joint industrial complex

PAJU, South Korea - Kim Young Tak, head of South Korea's 16-member delegation, speaks to the media in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom on July 2 before leaving for the North Korean border city of Kaesong for working-level talks with North Korea.

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2 Koreas hold working-level talks on joint industrial complex

PAJU, South Korea - A senior official of South Korea's Unification Ministry speaks to reporters at the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine office just south of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea in Paju on June 19 before leaving for the inter-Korean industrial complex in Kaesong in North Korea.

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2 Koreas hold working-level talks on joint industrial complex

SEOUL, South Korea - Officials of South Korea's Unification Ministry leave a liaison office on the South Korean side of the border for the North Korean border town of Kaesong to attend working-level talks between North and South Korea on a joint industrial complex in the town on June 11.