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| 1951 |
| | | UN and Chinese forces reach a stalemate in Korea, facing each other from fixed positions on either side of the 38th Parallel | |
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| 1953 |
| | | An armistice ends the Korean War, leaving several million dead and a country divided either side of a military zone along the 38th parallel | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon launches the Unification Church, a mission to unify world Christianity | |
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| 1994 |
| | | North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung dies and is succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Il | |
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| 2006 |
| | | North Korea test-fires seven missiles, of varying ranges and with varying success | |
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| 2006 |
| | | North Korea announces that it has tested a nuclear weapon | |
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| 2007 |
| | | South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the UN secretary-general, following the retirement of Kofi Annan | |
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| 2007 |
| | | North Korea agrees to begin shutting down its nuclear facilities in return for an ongoing programme of fuel aid | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The New York Philharmonic performs in North Korea, in the first significant cultural contact between USA and North Korea since the Korean War | |
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| 2009 May 21 |
| | | North Korea announces that it has carried out a second successful nuclear test | |
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