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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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| 2010 November 23 |
| | North Korea shells the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, causing four deaths and a dangerous deterioration in relations with South Korea | |
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| 2012 April 13 |
| | The rocket Kwangmyongsong-3 breaks up less than two minutes after its launch, in North Korea's third attempt to put a satellite into space | |
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