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Other events of 2016
Years in North Korea
Timeline of Korean history
2016 in South Korea |
Premier: Pak Pong-ju
Supreme leader: Kim Jong-un
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake near Sungjibaegam, North Korea, was suspected to be a nuclear explosion at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site. North Korea announced it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test (January 2016 North Korean nuclear test).
The satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 is launched on 7 February on board the carrier rocket Kwangmyongsong.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 2270 on 2 March, condemning the nuclear test and rocket launch by North Korea and imposing sanctions on it.
13 North Koreans working in a Korean restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, defect and arrive in Seoul on 7 April.
A test of the Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile on 15 April (Day of the Sun) ends in failure.
A submarine-launched missile is tested on 23 April but flies only 19 kilometres (12 mi).
7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea
3 August North Korea fires a ballistic missile from South Hwanghae Province in the west of the country to the Sea of Japan.
August 17 Thae Yong-ho, North Korea’s deputy ambassador to Britain, defects.
September 9: N.K. conducts its fifth nuclear test, amid international condemnation.
October 16 After Nuclear Test warns North Korea threaten a nuclear strikes on United States.
30 November: The UN Security Council unanimously issued resolution 2321, strengthening its sanctions regime against the DPRK, in response to that country’s 9 September nuclear test.
Pak Chol wins the Pyongyang Marathon in the men's professional event and Kim Ji-hyang in women's.
North Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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