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Inter-Korea etc

Even over the phone, you can feel your arm being twisted. So when Sylvia Park rang me a couple of weeks ago to cajole me in to rounding up some guests for the Anglo Korean Society Dinner at the House of Commons I knew I couldn’t say no.
My chosen guests were Korean Artists Association chairman [...]

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Four Ambassadors – the official photos

4 April 2009 Anglo-Korean Society
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Photos from the historic meeting of ambassadors to and from North and South Korea, in the Houses of Parliament

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Four Ambassadors: not enough Space

2 April 2009 Anglo-Korean Society
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Ambassador Chun (South Korea) and Ambassador Ja (North Korea) have an exchange of views in the UK Houses of Parliament

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Carpe Diem – Lord Alton and Baroness Cox report from the DPRK

26 February 2009 DPRK
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Two British parliamentarians return from the DPRK and report on the meetings they held with DPRK officials

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Lord Alton and Baroness Cox return from Pyongyang

7 February 2009 DPRK
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British Parliamentarians call on the new Obama administration to bring about a formal cessation of hostilities and normalisation of relations with DPRK

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Pyongyang marches for “socialist fairyland”

6 January 2009 Inter-Korea etc
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The text of the DPRK’s customary New Year Editorial

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LKL 2008 Quiz of the year – the answers

1 January 2009 2008 year-end posts
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LKL’s annual quiz about the year’s events in Korea, including plenty of celebrity trivia.

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Joint Communique from Inter-Korea Summit

26 October 2007 Inter-Korea etc
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Here is an English translation of the official Joint Communique from the Inter-Korea Summit held earlier this month (2-4 October).
Declaration on the Advancement of South-North Korean Relations, Peace and Prosperity
In accordance with the agreement between President Roh Moo-hyun of the Republic of Korea and Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defense Commission of the [...]

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Full text of agreement at inter-Korean economic talks

26 April 2007 Inter-Korea etc
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From the KOIS
The following is the full text of a 10-point agreement issued by South and North Korea at the end of their five-day economic cooperation meeting in Pyongyang on Sunday.
South and North Korea held the 13th meeting of the Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee in Pyongyang on April 18-22, 2007.
During the meeting, the two [...]

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Six party talks, round 5

18 February 2007 Inter-Korea etc
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The text of the joint agreement on North Korea’s nuclear disarmament as provided by the Chinese Foreign Ministry:
The Third Session of the Fifth Round of the Six-Party Talks was held in Beijing among the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United [...]

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South Korean artist’s response to the Division of Korea

16 December 2006 Conference reports
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South Korean Artists’ Response to the Issue of Divided Korea
Lecture by Jim Hoare and Jiyoon Lee
Monday 11 December at Asia House 6.45-7.45pm
The current exhibition at Asia House is producing much food for thought. This is now the third post devoted to the exhibition and is unlikely to be the last. In an evening of two [...]

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Six party talks, round 4

19 September 2005 Inter-Korea etc
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Following is a text of the joint statement at the conclusion of the fourth round of Six-Party Talks, as released in Beijing on September 19, 2005 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China.
Joint Statement of the Fourth Round of the Six-Party Talks
Beijing 19 September 2005
The Fourth Round of the Six-Party [...]

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Pyongyang declaration

17 September 2002 Inter-Korea etc
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PYONGYANG, Sept. 17 Kyodo
The following is the full text of the Japan-North Korea Pyongyang Declaration issued Tuesday after a summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Kim Jong Il, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chairman Kim Jong Il of the DPRK National Defense Commission [...]

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North-South Joint Declaration

15 June 2000 Inter-Korea etc
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The following is the text of the joint declaration issued following the first Nouth-South summit.
NORTH-SOUTH JOINT DECLARATION
True to the noble will of all the fellow countrymen for the peaceful reunification of the country, Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defense Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and President Kim Dae Jung of [...]

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The 1994 US – DPRK Agreed Framework

21 October 1994 Inter-Korea etc
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AGREED FRAMEWORK BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA GENEVA, OCTOBER 21, 1994
Delegations of the Governments of the United States of America (U.S.) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) held talks in Geneva from September 23 to October 21, 1994, to negotiate an overall resolution [...]

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