And now, the week in review of what's what at the Korean peninsula...
July 29, 2013
- North Korea did not give an answer on Monday to what the South calls its final proposal for talks regarding the normalization of the Kaesong Complex.
July 30, 2013
- South Korea and the US started up the 4th Korea-US Integrated Defense Dialogue in Seoul.
July 31, 2013
- South Korea awaits North Korea's response for the last offer for talks on reopening the Kaesong Complex for a second straight day.
- US Forces Korea chief nominee says OPCON transfer needed in 2015
- South Korean civic groups start sending humanitarian
aid to North Korea.
- More weapons found aboard seized North Korean ship in Panama.
August 1, 2013
- Rival parties still wrangling over who will be on the witness list for the special parliamentary probe looking into whether the nation's spy agency meddled in last year's presidential election.
- State prosecutors summoned former tax office chief Jeon Goon-pyo for allegedly taking bribes in an attempt to fight against corruption in South Korea.
- Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso retracted earlier remarks that suggested Japan should learn from Nazi Germany's constitutional remarks.
August 2, 2013
- North Korea remain silent for a fifth day on Friday concerning South Korea's proposal for "final talks" aimed at reopening the Kaesong complex.
- The second round of negotiations with Japan and China for a three-way free trade agreement ended Friday after what South Korea called "constructive discussions"
- Prosecutors sought an arrest warrant for former chief of the national tax agency, Jeon Goon-Pyo, on charges of accepting bribes from food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group in 2006, just after he was named commisioner of the National Tax Service.
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