Kore Tarihinde Bugün 7, 8, 9, 10 Ekim

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Oct. 7

1950 -- The U.N. General Assembly authorizes U.S.-led U.N. forces to advance into the North Korean side of the inter-Korean border. The tide of the Korean War turned in favor of the U.N. side after U.S. General Douglas MacArthur landed forces at Incheon. The war ended in a stalemate in 1953 roughly along the same borderline that existed before the conflict started.


1964 -- South Korea establishes diplomatic relations with Uruguay.


1979 -- Kim Hyung-wook, a former head of the now-defunct Korean Central Intelligence Agency, goes missing in Paris. Kim went into exile abroad in the early 1970s after criticizing his former mentor, then President Park Chung-hee.


1989 -- Pope John Paul II visits South Korea.


1998 -- President Kim Dae-jung and First Lady Lee Hee-ho leave for a four-day state visit to Japan. After a meeting with Japanese Emperor Akihito, Kim held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to announce a joint declaration, in which they pledged to overcome the past and build new relations. In the declaration, Obuchi said he "humbly accepted the historical fact that Japanese colonial rule inflicted horrendous damage and pain on the Korean people," and expressed remorse.


2003 -- South Korea, China and Japan agree to cooperate to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction throughout the world and to peacefully resolve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

The agreement was adopted at a summit between South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. They had gathered in Bali for the annual "ASEAN Plus Three" forum, a meeting of the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus South Korea, Japan and China.

(Yonhap)

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Oct. 8

1951 -- Panmunjom, a small village near the 38th parallel that forms the border between South and North Korea, is selected as the site of armistice talks on ending the fratricidal conflict. Negotiations dragged on, and a formal cease-fire agreement was not signed until almost two years later.

(Yonhap)

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Oct. 9

1446 -- Sejong, the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), unveils a new system of writing the Korean language to promote literacy and give the state, which had relied on the use of Chinese characters, its own alphabet. Known as Hangeul, it has since replaced Chinese characters in everyday use.


1983 -- Seventeen high-ranking South Korean officials, including two Cabinet members, are killed by a bomb at the Martyr's Mausoleum in Rangoon, Burma. The officials were accompanying then President Chun Doo-hwan, who was unhurt, on a visit to the Southeast Asian country. Burma, now called Myanmar, blamed North Korea for the bombing after capturing several North Korean agents and severed diplomatic ties with Pyongyang.


2000 -- North Korean Vice Admiral Jo Myong-rok visits the United States as an envoy of leader Kim Jong-il. The trip came a few weeks after then U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visited the North and held talks with Kim.


2006 -- North Korea announces through its official Korean Central News Agency that it successfully and safely conducted an underground nuclear test. The South Korean government confirms a 3.58-3.7 magnitude seismic tremor in a remote area of the North's Hamgyeong Province at around 10:36 a.m.


2007 -- U.S. President George W. Bush said he welcomes the latest inter-Korean summit agreement calling for peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.


2008 -- The North Korean Navy warned that repeated violations of its waters by South Korean warships are raising the possibility of a clash in the Yellow Sea.


2009 -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama agreed to seek a "comprehensive" solution to ending North Korea's nuclear development through a package deal.

(Yonhap)

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Oct. 10

1932 -- Korean independence fighter Lee Bong-chang, who attempted to assassinate Japanese Emperor Hirohito, dies at a prison in Japan. The Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule from 1910-45.


1990 -- South and North Korea open a joint film festival, held in New York, for the first time since the division of the peninsula in 1945.


1993 -- A 110-ton ferry sinks in waters off Buan on South Korea's west coast, killing 268 people on board.


1997 -- "Nanta," a non-verbal show combining cooking and high-energy percussion, is performed for the first time at a Seoul theater. It later became a hit and opened on Broadway.

(Yonhap)