Today in Korean History 10, 11, 12, 13 September

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Sept. 11

1899 -- Korea's last kingdom, the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), signs a trade treaty with China's Qing Dynasty.


1945 -- The operation of a railway line linking Seoul and Sinuiju, a border city in what is now North Korea, is stopped amid deepening enmity between the rival political forces which controlled the southern and northern parts of the Korean Peninsula. The rift started to appear shortly after the peninsula was liberated from Japanese colonial rule on Aug. 15 that year. The political divisions eventually led to the establishment of separate governments in 1948.

The Cold War confrontation took a dramatic turn in 2000, when then President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il met in Pyongyang and promised joint efforts for reconciliation and unification.

The two Koreas have since been working on opening two sets of cross-border railways and roads, including one linking Seoul and Sinuiju. A trial run of the Seoul-Sinuiju line is scheduled to be held in October.


2000 -- A North Korean delegation led by Workers' Party Secretary Kim Yong-sun arrives in Seoul. Its four-day trip followed then President Kim Dae-jung's visit to North Korea in June of that year for the inter-Korean summit.


2007 -- President Roh Moo-hyun stresses that a new Korean Peninsula peace arrangement to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War will be the most important agenda item at his summit talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il slated for Oct. 2-4 in Pyongyang.


2008 -- The South Korean government and private companies announce a plan to invest a combined 3 trillion won to develop clean energy resources over the next five years.


2009 -- North Korea withdraws demands for a hefty wage increase at a South Korean-run industrial park as anger brewed in the South over a deadly flash flood unleashed by the North.

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Sept. 12

1921 - Korean independence fighter Kim Ik-sang throws a bomb into the headquarters of the Japanese colonial government in an attempt to kill the Japanese governor-general of Korea, Makoto Saito. Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.


1983 - The South Korean government delivers an official letter to the ambassador of the Soviet Union in the United States to request compensation for the families of victims in the shooting down of a Korean Air plane. The South Korean airliner, carrying 269 people including 61 Americans, was shot down by a Soviet air force jet while en route from New York to Seoul.


1988 - The 94th General Assembly of the International Olympic Committee is held in Seoul.


1990 - Heavy rain in the central region of South Korea causes flooding, leaving 120 people dead or missing.


1991 - An athletics meeting for overseas Koreans is held in South Korea with 1,652 Koreans from 88 countries participating.


2002 - The presidential Truth Commission on Suspicious Deaths reveals that eight people executed in 1974 on charges of trying to overthrow the South Korean government were framed by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, the predecessor of today's National Intelligence Service.

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