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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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S. Korean Pres. Lee calls on N. Korea to halt missile launch

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak delivers a speech in Chonan on March 1 at a ceremony to mark the 1919 independence movement against Japanese colonial rule. Lee urged North Korea to halt its activities for launching long-range ballistic missiles and called for a resumption of dialogue between the two Koreas.

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6-way envoys predict tough negotiations over N. Korea nuke info

BEIJING, China - Akitaka Saiki, Japan's chief nuclear envoy, (Center) heads for six-country talks on denuclearizing North Korea being held in Beijing on Dec. 8. Saiki, the head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and negotiators from the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia will try to put in writing methods for verifying Pyongyang's nuclear information at the six-way meeting, which is expected to last three days. (Pool photo)

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N. Korea to accept half of energy aid in equivalents

PANMUNJEOM, Korea - Holding hands, delegates from the six nations involved in negotiations to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program pose for photographers after a meeting held in the truce village of Panmunjeom on Oct. 30. North Korea will accept half of 1 million tons of energy aid in equivalents in an agreement reached after two days of talks, according to Lim Sung Nam, the South Korean chairman of the working group. The six nations involved in the talks are the United States, China, Russia, Japan, and the two Koreas.

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S. Korea send rice aid to N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean trucks loaded with aid rice head to North Korea near the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas on July 20.

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S. Korean delegate arrives in N. Korea for ministerial talks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Unification Minister Lee Jae Joung acknowledges well-wishers in Seoul on Feb. 27 as he heads to Pyongyang to attend the 20th round of ministerial talks with North Korea. This is the first high-level dialogue between the two Koreas since July last year.

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Inter-Korean talks fail, N. Korea denounces S. Korea

BUSAN, South Korea - Kwon Ho Ung (C), a senior Cabinet councilor who headed the North Korean mission at inter-Korean ministerial talks in Busan, and other mission members leave their hotel in the South Korean city on July 13 after the two Koreas failed to reach agreements amid increasing tensions over the North's missile tests.

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Inter-Korean talks fail, N. Korea denounces S. Korea

BUSAN, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Lee Jong Seok (L) on July 13 sends off Kwon Ho Ung (R), a senior Cabinet councilor who heads the North Korean mission at inter-Korean ministerial talks in Busan, after the two Koreas failed to reach agreements amid increasing tensions over the North's missile tests.

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Two Koreas hold 17th Cabinet-level talks

JEJU, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong Young (R) shakes hands with senior North Korean Cabinet councilor Kwon Ho Ung ahead of the 17th Cabinet-level talks between the two Koreas in Jeju on Dec. 14.

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Two Koreas begin ministerial-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Kwon Ho Ung (L), head of a five-member North Korean delegation, and South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong Young walk hand in hand to the venue for inter-Korean ministerial-level talks at a Seoul hotel on June 21.

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Koreas agree to promote Kaesong industrial complex

SEOUL, South Korea - Choe Yong Gon (L), North Korea's vice minister of Construction and Building Materials Industries, and South Korea's Vice Finance Minister Kim Gwang Lim shake hands after exchanging documents agreed upon at the eighth South-North Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee meeting in a Seoul hotel March 5. The two parties decided to promote the development of an industrial complex in the North Korean city Kaesong.

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(2)Koreas agree to settle nuclear issue peacefully

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun (L) sends off North Korea's Senior Cabinet Councilor Kim Ryong Song at a Seoul hotel July 12 after winding up inter-Korean talks. The two Koreas agreed to seek a peaceful settlement to the North's nuclear issue through ''appropriate talks.''

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(1)Koreas agree to settle nuclear issue peacefully

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun (L) and North Korea's Senior Cabinet Councilor Kim Ryong Song shake hands at a Seoul hotel July 12 after winding up inter-Korean talks. The two Koreas agreed to seek a peaceful settlement to the North's nuclear issue through ''appropriate talks.''

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(2)Winter Asian Games officially open in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - Athletes from South and North Korea join hands and wave Korean unification flags during the opening ceremony for the fifth Winter Asian Games at Aoi-Mori Arena in Aomori City on Feb. 1. The two Koreas marched together as ''Korea.''

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(3)Two Koreas end ministerial talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Ryong Song (R), North Korea's chief delegate to ministerial talks with South Korea, waves as he leaves a Seoul hotel Jan. 24 after four days of talks. At left is South Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun, South Korea's chief delegate to the meeting.

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(2)Two Koreas end ministerial talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Ryong Song (R), North Korea's chief delegate to ministerial talks with South Korea, and South Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun (L), chief South Korean delegate, shake hands at a Seoul hotel Jan. 24 after four days of talks.

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(1)Two Koreas end ministerial talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Ryong Song (L), North Korea's chief delegate to ministerial talks with South Korea, and South Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun (R), chief South Korean delegate, issue a joint statement at a Seoul hotel Jan. 24. The two Koreas pledged efforts to peacefully resolve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear programs.

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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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(2)Two Koreas agree to start reconnecting railways

SEOUL, South Korea - Pak Chang Ryon (L), first vice chairman of North Korea's State Planning Commission, and Yun Jin Shik, South Korean vice minister of finance and economy, shake hands in Seoul on Aug. 30 following agreement to start work to reconnect two cross-border railway lines and their adjacent roads Sep. 18.

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(1)Two Koreas agree to start reconnecting railways

SEOUL, South Korea - Pak Chang Ryon (L), first vice chairman of North Korea's State Planning Commission, and Yun Jin Shik, South Korean vice minister of finance and economy, exchange notes in Seoul on Aug. 30 following agreement to start work to reconnect two cross-border railway lines and their adjacent roads Sep. 18. (Pool photo)

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Two Koreas begin economic talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Delegates from North Korea (L) and South Korea (R) pose for photographers at a Seoul hotel on Aug. 28 at the outset of four-day inter-Korean talks aimed at boosting bilateral economic collaboration and exchanges.

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N., S. Korean ministerial talks enter 2nd day

SEOUL, South Korea - Delegates from North Korea (L) and South Korea shake hands at a hotel in Seoul on Aug. 13 at the outset of the second day of their ministerial talks. The two Koreas began the three-day talks in Seoul on Aug. 12 with the aim of reviving the stalled inter-Korean reconciliation process.