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April 13 and then report on its entire nuclear program and
incapacitate all existing reactors. In return, North Korea would receive
950,000 tons of heavy oil. After the BDA issue was resolved in June by
the transfer of around $25m via a Russian bank to North Korea, the
North on July 6 officially declared that it had suspended the nuclear
facilities at Yôngbyôn.
Although the sunshine policy led to better North-South relations,
military relations did not improve. Nonetheless, military talks were
held more often in 2007 than in any other year, including one defence
ministers’ meeting, three North-South General Officers’ talks and
seven working-level talks on military affairs. At the fifth round of
North-South General Officers’ talks held at Re-unification House on
May 8-11, an agreement was reached on military security for the
experiment in railway traffic that took place on May 17 for the first
time in over 50 years. In the October 4 declaration for developing
relations, peace and prosperity adopted at the second inter-Korean
summit held in P’yôngyang from October 2-4, it was agreed in
Paragraph 3 “to end the state of military antagonism and cooperate for
easing tension and guaranteeing peace.”
In the agreement reached at the second defence minister talks
held seven years after the previous from November 27 to 29 in
P’yôngyang, the two Koreas pledged to ease tension and guarantee
peace, to resolve disputes through talks, to prevent clashes and
guarantee peace in the West Sea, to end the armistice and create a
peace regime and, finally, to formulate a plan for military guarantees
for exchanges and cooperation. On December 5, an agreement was
reached at the 35th round of working-level talks held at Re-unification
House on military guarantees for railway freight traffic from Munsan
504 Peace-keeping in the Korean Peninsula