Seoul:The first bridge spanning the Han River, connecting the Yongsan area to Noryangjin in Seoul, opened today, marking a significant development in the city's infrastructure.
According to Yonhap News Agency, in 1996, Ahn Doo-hee, known for assassinating freedom fighter Kim Koo in 1949, was killed by Kwon Joong-hwi, a supporter of Kim. In 2000, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visited North Korea and held discussions with the country's leader, Kim Jong-il.
In 2007, President Roh Moo-hyun announced the extension of South Korea's Zaytun unit's stay in Iraq for an additional 12 months, despite plans to halve the troop size to 600. By 2010, during a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 major economies committed to avoiding competitive currency devaluations and excessive trade imbalances.
In 2011, Kim Kye-gwan, North Korea's top nuclear negotiator, arrived in Geneva for denuclearization talks with U.S. counterpart Stephen Bosworth, following North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's calls for resuming nuclear talks without preconditions. Two years later, in 2013, South and North Korea reached an agreement on managing an inter-Korean industrial complex in Kaesong.
In 2017, defense chiefs from South Korea, the U.S., and Japan agreed on supporting diplomacy-driven denuclearization of North Korea during talks at an ASEAN security forum in Manila. The following year, President Moon Jae-in ratified a summit agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reached earlier that month in Pyongyang.