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Historical Timeline for North Korea - A chronology of key events
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North Korea Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
500,000 BC AD Presumed habitation of the peninsula by hominids.
30,000 BC AD Appearance of Paleolithic culture.
6000-4000 BC Pottery "comb", Neolithic culture.
3000 BC AD Time of the great Ural-Altaic migrations.
2333 BC AD Legendary foundation of the first Korean state by Dan-gun (Gojeoson).
1500 BC AD Beginning of the Bronze Age.
700-600 BC AD Change in the style of pottery; rice cultivation.
300 BC AD Beginning of the Iron Age and Scytho-Siberian bronze culture.
194-180 BC AD Wiman Joseon.
108 BC AD Defeat of Wiman Joseon, Chinese commandery.
57 BC AD Kingdom of Silla (capital: Gyeongju).
37 BC AD Kingdom of Goguryeo (capital: Pyongyang).
18 BC AD Kingdom of Baekje (capitals: Seoul, Gongju, then Buyeo).
372-535 Adoption of Buddhism by the Three Kingdoms.
660 Fall of Baekje.
668 Fall of Goguryeo and founding of Grand Silla.
935 Abdication of the last king of Silla.
958 Creation of the recruitment exam for gwageo civil servants.
992 Founding of the Gukjagam National Confucian Academy.
1231 Mongol invasion; the court is held in Ganghwado.
1236-1251 Second engraving of the Tripitaka.
1372 The world's first printed text with movable metallic type.
1392 Foundation of the Yi dynasty (Joseon kingdom) by Yi Seong-gye.
1394 Creation of Hanyang (Seoul) as capital and construction of the Gyeongbokgung palace.
1398 Founding of the Seonggyun-gwan National Confucian Academy in Seoul.
1443 Invention of the Korean alphabet (or Hangeul), made public in 1446.
1592-1598 Japanese invasion of Hideyoshi; Yi Sun-sin's turtle boat.
1636 Manchu invasions.
1637 Treaty with the Manchu Qing dynasty, then closure of the country.
1627-1653 Dutch castaways, the first direct accounts of Korea in the West.
1785 First Christian community in Seoul.
1839 Great persecutions against the Catholics.
1860 Foundation of the Donghak movement.
1866 Other persecutions; French incursion into Ganghwado.
1876 Treaty of Ganghwado with Japan opening Korea to foreigners.
1882 Treaty of commerce and friendship with the United States.
1886 Commercial treaty with France, right of evangelization granted to missionaries.
1895 Assassination of Queen Min by the Japanese.
1896 King Gojong takes refuge in the Russian legation.
1905 Protectorate treaty imposed by Japan following the Russo-Japanese war; unofficial occupation by Japan.
August 29, 1910 King Sunjong renounces his throne.
March 21, 1919 A Korean National Council, formed in Vladivostok on March 17, forms a provisional government. Another provisional government of the Republic of Korea was created in Shanghai on April 11; a third, ephemeral, was born in Seoul on April 21. Of these three go
1921 Creation of the Korean Language Study Society, which will contribute to cultural resistance to the Japanese occupation.
1924 Creation of the Seoul Imperial University.
1925 Creation in Seoul of a Korean Communist Party.
1939 Japanese authorities impose compulsory labor service on Koreans.
1943 Dissolution of the Society for the Study of the Korean Language. The use of the Korean language is prohibited in the streets and Koreans are forced to Japaneseize their family name. Mobilization of Koreans in the Japanese army. At the same time, tens of t
August 6 and 9, 1945 Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 8, Stalin declared war on Japan and the Red Army entered Manchuria. Soviet forces occupy Pyongyang on August 12.
September 8, 1945 The Americans land in Korea. They agree with the Soviets to divide the country into two zones separated by the 38th parallel.
November 23, 1945 Kim Ku and the Provisional Government established in China return to Korea. At the same time, the Soviets favored the installation in their zone of occupation of a People's Committee of North Korea, headed by Kim Il-sung.
July 20, 1949 Syngman Rhee was elected first president and the Republic of South Korea was officially proclaimed on the following August 15.
September 9, 1948 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (PRC) led by Kim Il-sung is proclaimed in the Soviet zone of occupation.
June 25, 1950 North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel. On June 27, the United Nations Security Council voted for military assistance to South Korea. Seoul captured the same day. At the end of July, the South Korean troops only held the south-eastern part of the pen
September 15, 1950 Landing of Incheon of the United Nations armed force (comprising contingents from sixteen countries), under the leadership of General MacArthur.
September 28, 1950 Capture of Seoul by United Nations forces, which crossed the 38th parallel on October 7 and invaded North Korea.
October 19, 1950 Capture of Pyongyang. On the 26th, American forces reached the southern shore of the Yalu.
October 25, 1950 The Fourth Chinese Army commanded by Lin Biao crosses the Yalu and the Chinese "volunteers" retake Pyongyang on December 4th. Seoul fell again on January 4, 1951.
January 15, 1951 American counter-offensive led by General Ridgway. Seoul was resumed on March 14 and the front was stabilized along the 38th parallel.
October 13, 1952 Capture of the Piton de Crève-coeur by the French Korean battalion, under the orders of General Monclar.
July 27, 1953 Signature of the Panmunjom armistice between North Koreans, Chinese volunteers and UN troops. The South refuses to take part, hence the lack of an armistice at the present time. A demilitarized zone (DMZ) now separates North Korea from South Korea.
1968 Several special forces commandos from the North launch raids against the South, notably against the presidential residence in Seoul.
1972 Adoption of a new Constitution.
July 4, 1972 The two Korean governments undertake to work for the peaceful reunification of the country.
1983 Attack against South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan in Rangoon (Burma). It is attributed to the Pyongyang regime.
1987 An attack on a Korean Airlines Boeing kills 115 people; the most advanced thesis is that of a bomb planted by two North Korean agents.
1988 North Korea refuses to participate in the Olympic Games held in Seoul.
1991 The two Koreas, which are jointly admitted to the UN (September 17, 1991 for North Korea), sign a pact of reconciliation and non-aggression.
January 1992 Yielding to international pressure, Pyongyang finally signs the nuclear security agreements.
1992 South Korea establishes relations with the People's Republic of China.
July 8, 1994 Death of the North Korean "Great Leader" Kim Il-sung. His son Kim Jong-il succeeds him.
1996 A huge famine strikes the country and causes the death of a large number of people (we are talking about a number between 1 and 3 million North Korean citizens).
July 1997 North Korea adopts a new calendar starting from Kim Il-sung's date of birth in April 1912.
June 1999 Naval incident off the North Korean coast: the South Korean navy sinks several North Korean ships.
June 13, 2000 Meeting in Pyongyang of the two presidents Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong-il.
July 24, 2000 North Korea joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
August 16, 2000 Reunion in Seoul between members of Korean families separated by the war.
September 19, 2000 Kim Dae-jung inaugurates the construction of a highway and a railway line to link Pyongyang to Seoul.
September 24, 2000 South Korea suggests installing a hotline to prevent any border incident between the two Koreas.
October 13, 2000 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
January 2003 North Korea withdraws from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty on the pretext of restarting its power plants.
June 2003 Opening of the Kaesong industrial zone.
October 2003 The Pyongyang regime announces that it is equipped with nuclear power.
June 12, 2004 Signature of an agreement aimed at avoiding border incidents between the two Koreas.
October 9, 2006 North Korea announces that it has carried out a nuclear test.
October 13, 2006 Ban Ki-moon, former South Korean Foreign Minister, is elected UN Secretary General, succeeding Kofi Annan.
February 13, 2007 Agreement on the disarmament of Pyongyang during new six-party talks in Beijing.
May 2007 For the first time since the end of the war, two train convoys cross the demarcation zone between North and South.
October 4, 2007 Following South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun's historic visit to North Korea, Seoul and Pyongyang sign a joint declaration stating their wish to pacify the peninsula.
February 2008 The coming to power in South Korea of ​​conservative President Lee Myung-bak puts an end to the conciliatory policy with Pyongyang.
May 25, 2009 North Korea carries out a new nuclear test (underground).
June 11, 2009 Resumption of inter-Korean discussions on the Kaesong industrial park where a hundred South Korean companies employ 40,000 North Koreans.
January 27, 2010 The two Koreas exchange artillery fire near the disputed area of ​​their maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
March 26, 2010 An explosion causes the sinking of a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, in the disputed maritime zone between the two Koreas. 46 sailors are killed.
September 16, 2010 North Korea offers military talks to South Korea. Pyongyang wishes to address the issue of the maritime border off the western coasts, as well as that of Seoul's plan to drop leaflets hostile to power on North Korea.
October 25, 2010 For the first time since Lee Myung-bak came to power in 2008, Seoul agrees to send food aid to starving North Korea. 5,000 tonnes of rice are shipped north.
October 29, 2010 North Korean soldiers fire at South Korea over the border in Hwacheon, 90 km northeast of Seoul.
November 23, 2010 North Korea fires shells at the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong in the Yellow Sea. The incident left two dead and fourteen wounded among the South Korean armed forces, in addition to two civilian deaths, and triggered an armed response from Seoul. The U
December 17, 2011 Kim Kong-il dies, and news of his death is communicated two days later. His youngest son, Kim Jung-un, aged around 27, succeeds him.
February 2012 Kim Jong-un receives the title of Generalissimo, like his father before him. On the occasion of a party celebrating the seventieth anniversary of Kim Jong-il's birth, the military swears loyalty to Kim Jong-un.
February 29, 2012 Following an agreement with the United States, North Korea once again undertakes to suspend its nuclear activities in exchange for sending 240,000 tonnes of food.
January 1, 2013 Kim Jong-un announces on television his wish to improve relations with South Korea.
February 12, 2013 North Korea carries out a third nuclear test and causes a new security crisis.
March 2013 Washington and Seoul conduct joint military exercises.
April 2, 2013 Pyongyang announces the imminent reopening of its Yongbyon site, and prohibits South Koreans from entering the Kaesong complex.
April 16, 2013 North Korea issues an ultimatum to South Korea, asking it to "apologize and immediately cease all anti-North Korean activity."
May 5, 2013 South Korean President Park Geun-hye travels to the United States and meets with Barack Obama in the hope of finding a solution to the crisis.
June 16, 2013 North Korea offers negotiations to the United States to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
July 3, 2013 Communications between Seoul and Pyongyang are restored.
December 12, 2013 Jang Song-taek, number 2 in the regime and Kim Jong-un's uncle by marriage, is executed after a quick trial on charges of high treason.
February 20, 2014 New reunion of families separated by the Korean War.
October 2014 Kim Jong-un reappears in public after a six-week absence which has fueled rumors about his state of health. A few days earlier, an official North Korean delegation attended the closing ceremony of the Asian Games in Incheon, and met with South Korean offi
November 19, 2014 The UN Commission on Human Rights adopts a text asking the Security Council to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court for the atrocities committed by the regime. Pyongyang responds by once again wielding the nuclear threat.
December 2014 Scheduled for Christmas Day, the US release of the satirical film The Interview (translated into French by L'Interview qui tue) in the United States is canceled following a massive hacking campaign against the producer, Sony Pictures . The United States a
January 2015 Yonhap News Agency announces the execution of a North Korean minister who criticized the country's reforestation plans.
March 2015 Four members of the Unhasu orchestra were reportedly executed for espionage.
June 16, 2015 Pyongyang announces it is experiencing its "worst drought in a hundred years" with a devastating impact on the country's grain and rice stores.
August 2015 North Korea delays its official time by 30 minutes to, according to it, "stand out from the time imposed by the former Japanese occupier".
January 6, 2016 North Korea announces that it has carried out a fourth nuclear test. The international community is responding with reinforced sanctions adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council.
February 2016 The communication channel between the two Koreas is closed by North Korea in protest against Seoul's closure of the Kaesong joint industrial complex (in retaliation for North Korea's latest nuclear and ballistic tests).
September 3, 2017 North Korea's sixth nuclear test.
January 3, 2018 The emergency telephone line between the two Koreas, interrupted since 2016, has been reestablished.
February-March 2018 PyeongChang, South Korea, hosts the Winter Olympics. North Korea is also participating in the festivities with a delegation of around 500 people.
March 8, 2018 Kim Jong-un invites President Trump to a meeting by May 2018.
April 21, 2018 Kim Jong-un announces his intention to cease all nuclear tests and all launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
April 27, 2018 A historic summit between the leaders of the two Koreas resulted in a joint declaration between the two countries committing to a complete denuclearization of the peninsula and an end to all hostile activity.
June 12, 2018 In Singapore, Kim Jong-un meets Donald Trump. First meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting US president. The two men sign a declaration of intent on the denuclearization of the peninsula and pacification.
September 2018 New meeting between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in, in Pyongyang. The two Koreas set up a direct security line and reaffirm their commitment to pacify the peninsula.
January 10, 2019 The North Korean leader's fourth trip to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.
February 2019 President Donald Trump invites Kim Jong-un to a meeting on February 27-28 in Hanoi.

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