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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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Mongolian president visits Panmunjom

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (2nd from R, front row) and his entourage visit the truce village Panmunjom on the border between North and South Korea on Oct. 29, 2013. The president was visiting North Korea.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean soldiers stand guard in the border village of Panmunjom on April 18, 2013. Seen in the background is a building on the North Korean side.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

SEOUL, South Korea - Tourists from the United States and European countries visit the border village of Panmunjom on April 18, 2013. Seen in the background is a building on the North Korean side.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean soldier looks through binoculars in the border village of Panmunjom on April 18, 2013.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a North Korean military officer at an observation facility near the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean soldiers stand guard in the border village of Panmunjom on April 16, 2013. Seen in the background is a building on the South Korean side. Kyodo News entered Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a signboard reading "independent unification" at the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A North Korean military officer points to the military demarcation line on a Korean Peninsula map in a security facility at the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean soldiers stand guard in the border village of Panmunjom on April 16, 2013. Seen in the background is a building on the South Korean side. Kyodo News entered Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a signboard (L) reading "70 kilometers to Seoul" near the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A North Korean military officer is on guard on the North Korean side near the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows foreign tourists beside a Korean unification slogan near the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean soldiers stand guard in the border village of Panmunjom on April 16, 2013. Seen in the background is a building on the South Korean side. Kyodo News entered Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a pedestrian near the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows soldiers on the South Korean side of the border village of Panmunjom on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

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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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Japan minister in Panmunjom

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa (C) visits the truce village of Panmunjom between South and North Korea on Jan. 11, 2011.

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Japan minister in Panmunjom

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa (2nd from L) visits a building of the Military Armistice Commission in the truce village of Panmunjom between South and North Korea on Jan. 11, 2011.

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Japan minister in Panmunjom

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa (front L) visits the truce village of Panmunjom between South and North Korea on Jan. 11, 2011.

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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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S. Korean delegation heads to N. Korea to prepare for 2nd summit

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Vice Unification Minister Lee Kwan Se (C) leaves the Inter Korea Transit Office in Paju, near the border village of Panmunjom, for Pyongyang on Sept. 18 for preparatory work on the second inter-Korean summit set for Oct. 2-4.

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S. Korea proposes Aug. 7-8 energy group talks at Panmunjom

SEOUL, South Korea - Freedom House, a South Korean facility in the truce village Panmunjom. South Korea has proposed to its partners in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs that a meeting of a working group under the framework be held there on Aug. 7-8, sources close to the talks said July 25. Photo taken in July 1998.

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Ceremony marks 50th anniversary of Korean War truce

SEOUL, South Korea - A ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Korean War armistice is held in the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea on July 27.

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N., S. Korea break ground for industrial complex

TOKYO, Japan - A groundbreaking ceremony for a project to build an industrial complex is held in Kaesong, a North Korean city just north of the truce village of Panmunjom, on June 30. Under an agreement between South Korea's Hyundai Business Group and North Korea, an industrial park of around 3.3 million square meters is to be established in Kaesong by 2007.

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Koreas begin railroad talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Military officials from North (L) and South Korea shake hands at the border truce village of Panmunjom on Sept. 14 as the two countries began talks on reconnecting railway links across the border of the divided Korean Peninsula.

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UNC, N. Korea sign accord on cross-border railway

SEOUL, South Korea - Delegates of the U.S.-led U.N. Command (UNC) and North Korea are in talks at the truce village of Panmunjom on Sept. 12. The two sides signed an agreement later in the day allowing South Korea to proceed with construction work on a cross-border railway line through the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas.

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Kawaguchi visits Korean DMZ

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi tours the Korean truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea on July 13. Kawaguchi, on a three-day trip to South Korea until July 14, took several steps across the border line inside Panmunjom's Freedom House.

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S. Korean envoy Lim returns from visit to North

PANMUNJOM, Korea - South Korean presidential envoy Lim Dong Won (C) waves as he returns to his country via the truce village of Panmunjom on April 6 after a successful four-day visit to North Korea to revive the stalled inter-Korean reconciliation process.

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N. Korean soldier repatriated through Panmunjom

SEOUL, South Korea - Lee Sung Hun, a North Korean soldier, is seen in this pool photo being welcomed by his colleges at the truce village of Panmunjom on Aug. 7 while being repatriated to the North Korean side by the U.S.-led United Nations Command. Lee was found adrift in a river near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas and rescued by South Korean patrol guards on Aug. 4.

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N. Korean defense minister enters S. Korea

PANMUNJOM - Vice Marshal Kim Il Chol, minister for North Korea's People's Armed Forces, (2nd from L) enters South Korea through the truce village of Panmunjom on Sept. 24 for talks with South Korean Defense Minister Cho Sung Tae on the Cheju Island for the first ever inter-Korean defense ministerial talks on Sept. 25-26. Photo shows the North Korean minister being received by a South Korean military officer in Panmunjom.

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63 formerly imprisoned N. Korean agents leave Seoul hotel

SEOUL, South Korea - Some of 63 formerly imprisoned North Korean agents wave to relatives from a bus as they leave a Seoul hotel Sept. 2. They were being repatriated under an agreement reached at June's historic inter-Korean summit. The 63, who all expressed a desire to return to the North after their release from prison, crossed over to North Korea at the border village of Panmunjom at around 10 a.m.

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N., S. Korea reopen liaison offices in Panmunjom

PANMUNJOM, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Park Jae Kyu tests a direct telephone line to North Korea on Aug. 14, at a ceremony to mark the reopening of the two countries' liaison offices in the truce village of Panmunjom. The offices were shut down in 1996 in the wake of heightened tensions caused by a North Korean submarine infiltration on South Korea's east coast.

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S. Korean President Kim greets chief N. Korean delegate

SEOUL, S. Korea - South Korean President Kim Dae Jung (R) greets North Korean cabinet counselor Jon Kum Jin at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on July 31. Earlier in the day, the two Koreas announced that Jon and South Korean Unification Minister Park Jae Kyu reached an agreement that includes the reopening of liaison offices at the truce village of Panmunjom on Aug. 15.

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Chief N., S. Korean delegates announce accord

SEOUL, S. Korea - North Korean cabinet counselor Jon Kum Jin (R) shakes hands July 31 with South Korean Unification Minister Park Jae Kyu at a Seoul hotel July 31, following two rounds of minister-level talks on implementing a historic accord signed during the inter-Korean summit last month. Jon and Park announced an agreement that includes the reopening of a liaison office at the truce village of Panmunjom on Aug. 15.

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S. Korean advance party for summit enters N. Korea

PANMUNJOM, Korea - Members of a South Korean advance party to oversee final preparations for next month's inter-Korean summit on May 31 cross into North Korea via the truce village of Panmunjom. The 30-member team, headed by Sohn In Kyo, director of the South-North Dialogue Office, comprises working-level experts in areas such as protocol, security, communications and media relations.

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North, South Korea agree on procedural matters for summit

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's chief delegate Kim Ryung Sung (L) and his South Korean counterpart Yang Young Shik smile May 18 as they shake hands at the end of their fifth round of preparatory negotiations at the truce village of Panmunjom for next month's inter-Korean summit.

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2 Koreas hold working-level talks on inter-Korean summit

PANMUNJOM - The chief South Korean delegate (L) shakes hands with his counterpart from the North (R) at working-level talks held May 13 at the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss media coverage and communications at the inter-Korean summit. Four experts from each side attended the closed-door talks to prepare for the June 12-14 summit in Pyongyang between South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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N., S. Korea fail to agree on summit procedures

PANMUNJOM - Yang Young Shik (front right), South Korea's chief delegate to a third round of preparatory talks with North Korea for an unprecedented June summit, sits across from Kim Ryung Sung (far left), a senior councilor in the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly who headed the North Korean delegation, at Freedom House on the southern side of the Korean truce village of Panmunjom. The two negotiators failed to reach an agreement May 3 on procedures for the summit, but agreed to hold the next talks May 8 at Unification Pavilion, which is located on Panmunjom's northern side.

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N., S. Korea hold 2nd round of preparatory talks

PANMUNJOM - Kim Ryung Sung, a senior councilor in the Presidium of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, and Yang Young Shik, South Korean vice unification minister, shake hands at the beginning of the second round of inter-Korean preliminary talks at the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27.

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Delegates from N., S. Korea shake hands at preparatory talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Delegates from North Korea (L) and South Korea (R) shake hands during preparatory talks at the truce village Panmunjom on April 22 where they began to work out procedural details for the historic summit in June between their top leaders. The first round of preliminary talks started 10 a.m. and finished about an hour and 20 minutes later. The talks will resume on April 27.

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N. Korea informs S. Korea of Panmunjom delegates

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Vice Unification Minister Yang Young Shik (2nd from R) shakes hands with Unification Minister Park Jae Kyu (2nd from L) at the ministry April 21. Yang is to head Seoul's delegation to bilateral preliminary talks with North Korea set for April 22 at the truce village Panmunjom. The North Korean delegation will be headed by Kim Ryung Sung, a councilor at Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly.

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N. Korean ship leaves Hokkaido for tour

OTARU, Japan - The North Korean ship Man Gyong Bong leaves Otaru, Hokkaido, on Oct. 20 carrying 160 Japanese and North Korean tourists for an 11-day trip to North Korea. The tourists will visit Pyongyang and the border town of Panmunjom as well as other places in North Korea.

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Hyundai founder returns after meeting Kim Jong Il

PANMUNJOM, Korea - Hyundai Business Group founder Chung Ju Yung (C) returns to South Korea via the truce village of Panmunjom on Oct. 2 morning after a five-day visit to North Korea where he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Chung told reporters his talks with Kim focused on a tour project at Mt. Kumgang and a plan to set up an industrial complex on the west coast of North Korea.

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UNC returns body of soldier to N. Korea

SEOUL, S. Korea - Soldiers of the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) repatriate the body of a North Korean soldier thought to have died in the recent flooding in a ceremony at the truce village of Panmunjom on Aug. 25.

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Red Cross sends back corpses killed in flood to N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean Red Cross Society sends home the bodies on Aug. 16 of three dead North Koreans who apparently were killed in torrential rains in late July. The three bodies, which were carried across the border into South Korea by flood waters, were sent to the North through the border village of Panmunjom.

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N. Korea to open beaches near Mt. Kumgang to tourism

South Korea's Hyundai Business Group founder Chung Ju Yung returns to South Korea via the truce village of Panmunjom on March 11 from a three-day visit to North Korea. He told reporters that North Korea has agreed in principle to allow tourists to visit beaches near scenic Mt. Kumgang in North Korea from this summer.

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Hyundai founder Chung returns from N. Korean trip

South Korea's Hyundai Business Group founder Chung Ju Yung greets well-wishers as he returns home through the truce village of Panmunjom on Feb. 6 after a three-day visit to North Korea. A Hyundai spokesman revealed that Chung's group will arrange a basketball game between North and South Korean teams in Pyongyang in April.

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Hyundai founder Chung visits N. Korea

Hyundai Business Group founder Chung Ju Yung (C) enters North Korea Feb. 4 via the truce village of Panmunjom for talks on the Mt. Kumgang tourism project and the establishment of an industrial complex in the North. Chung, accompanied by six Hyundai executives, crossed Panmunjom, the only inter-Korean border-crossing point, at around 11 a.m. He plans to return by the same route Feb. 6.

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Japanese defense chief visits Panmunjom truce village

Hosei Norota, director general of the Japanese Defense Agency, visits the truce village of Panmunjom on the Korean military border in the afternoon of Jan. 7. The photo shows Norota inspecting the military border zone at the House of Freedom in Panmunjom. The Japanese defense chief arrived in Seoul on Jan. 6 for a three-day visit.