Chronologies

US - Korea

Chronology from Sep 2023 to Dec 2023

: Chinese and South Korean foreign ministries hold director-general consultations in Shenzhen.

: First South Korea-China Supply Chain Hotline Meeting and the fourth South Korea-China Working-Level Industrial Cooperation Meeting takes place in Seoul.

: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Pak meet in Beijing. 

: North Korea test-fires a Hwasong-18 ICBM. 

: Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myong Ho meet in Beijing. 

: Two Chinese and four Russian military planes enter South Korea’s air defense identification zone without notice.

: North Korea’s Air Koryo resumes Pyongyang-Shenyang commercial flights. 

: South Korean Deputy Director-General for Northeast Asian Affairs Kang Young-Shin and Chinese Deputy Director-General of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs Yang Renhuo co-chair a Korea-China Deputy Director-Generals’ Meeting on Maritime Affairs in Shanghai.

: South Korean Minister for Trade Dukgeun Ahn and Chinese International Trade Representative Wang Shouwen attend the fifth Korea-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Joint Committee meeting held in Beijing.

: 16th Tripartite Health Ministers’ Meeting is held in Beijing.

: South Korea’s National Assembly passes resolution calling on China to stop repatriating North Korean refugees. 

: UN Security Council holds a briefing on North Korea’s satellite launch.

: Foreign Ministers Wang Yi and Park Jin meet in Busan on the sidelines of the tenth China-South Korea-Japan Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. 

: South Korea returns the remains of 25 Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War. 

: Yulin, Shaanxi province hosts 20th Korea Heart to Heart (K2H) Symposium on International Exchanges of Civil Servants for subnational China-South Korea cooperation.

: North Korea launches a military spy satellite. 

: 400;">Nov. 14, 2023: First South Korea-China Economic Cooperation Exchange is held in Changchun.

: Xi sends a response letter to Kim.

: South Korean Foreign Ministry sends condolence messages to China on the death of Premier Li Keqiang. 

: President Xi sends a reply letter to Kim Jong Un. 

: North Korea commemorates 73rd anniversary of China’s entry into the Korean War. 

: Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Nong Rong and a China-South Korea-Japan Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat delegation led by Secretary-General Lee Hee-sup meet in Beijing.

: Activists at the South Korean Foreign Ministry protest China’s repatriation of North Koreans.

: Kim sends a letter to Xi marking China’s seventy-fourth founding anniversary. 

: US solider Travis King is returned from North Korea, with assistance from China. 

: China-South Korea-Japan senior officials’ meeting takes place in Seoul.

: South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Park Jin takes part in the Korea-Japan-China Trilateral Senior Officials’ Meeting.

: Kim sends a response letter to Xi.

: President Xi and South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo meet in Hangzhou, where the 19th Asian Games start. 

: President Xi Jinping sends a message to Kim Jong Un marking North Korea’s 75th founding anniversary. 

: A Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Liu Guozhong visits Pyongyang.

: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese Premier Li Qiang meet in Jakarta on the sidelines of ASEAN meetings. 

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