US Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday visited the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating South Korea from the North, a visit that was likely to cast attention on global concerns about North Korea's nuclear programme.

Biden met with soldiers at the US military's Camp Bonifas near the South-North border, in Paju, and went to Observation Post Ouellette, one of 77 guard posts that line the South Korean side of the border.

He then stopped further down the road at Freedom House, an administrative building in the southern sector of Panmunjom, which lies inside the 2.5-mile-wide Demilitarised Zone that separates the two Koreas.

The visit, which took place on the last day of a long-planned trip to South Korea, came just hours after North Korea freed Merrill Newman, an elderly US veteran of the Korean War after a weekslong detention.

Biden welcomed the release and called Newman shortly after the 85-year-old landed in Beijing from North Korea, where he had been detained for more than a month.

North Korean authorities had pulled Newman off a plane while he was touring the country six decades after the war.

Biden said he had "played no direct role" in securing Newman's release and offered no thoughts on why the North decided to release him.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency said Pyongyang made the decision because the Newman had apologised for his alleged crimes during the Korean War and because of his age and medical condition.

Biden told the released American that the US must also work to secure the release of Kenneth Bae, another US citizen in Pyongyang's custody, Biden's office said.

Tension remains on the Korean Peninsula, though Pyongyang's angry rhetoric against the US and South Korea has toned down compared with its torrent of springtime threats to launch nuclear strikes and restart nuclear bomb fuel production.

AP TELEVISION

1. Zoom in to US Vice President Joe Biden walking away from military helicopter after landing in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) and being greeted by US soldiers

2. Wide of Biden stepping into guard post at Observation Post Ouellette, the closest OP to the North Korea's guard post located within DMZ

3. Close of Biden

4. Mid of Biden being briefed by US solider

5. Close of Biden

6. Various of Biden looking towards North Korea through binoculars

7. Wide of North Korean soldiers guarding Panmunjom, located on North Korean side of the Demarcation Line separating South and North Korea, within the Joint Security Area (JSA), looking towards the South Korean side through binoculars

8. Wide of Panmunjom

9. Wide of North Korean soldier guarding Panmunjom

10. Wide of Biden being briefed by US soldier on balcony of Freedom House, on the South Korean side of the Demarcation Line

11. Various of North Korean soldiers moving down steps to get a better look of the South Korean side during Biden's visit

12. Various of Biden shaking hands with US and South Korean soldiers at Freedom House

US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter said on Sunday that it was important to continue trying to resolve the issues surrounding North Korea's nuclear programme through six-party talks.

He was speaking during a visit to the South Korean side of the Korean de-militarised zone.

Carter said that the US is continuously urging North Korea to refrain from provocations or any action that may heighten tension, and to follow through on the denuclearisation process demanded in the six-party talks, in order to bring peace and prosperity to the Korean peninsula.

Carter emphasised the need for a strong US-South Korea alliance, and the necessity of keeping a strong military presence in the sharply divided border areas.

Carter is visiting South Korea for three days from Saturday to Monday to take part in the security consultative meeting (SCM) on Monday with his South Korean counterpart, Han Min-koo.

US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter said on Sunday that it was important to continue trying to resolve the issues surrounding North Korea's nuclear programme through six-party talks.

He was speaking during a visit to the South Korean side of the Korean de-militarised zone.

Carter said that the US is continuously urging North Korea to refrain from provocations or any action that may heighten tension, and to follow through on the denuclearisation process demanded in the six-party talks, in order to bring peace and prosperity to the Korean peninsula.

Carter emphasised the need for a strong US-South Korea alliance, and the necessity of keeping a strong military presence in the sharply divided border areas.

Carter is visiting South Korea for three days from Saturday to Monday to take part in the security consultative meeting (SCM) on Monday with his South Korean counterpart, Han Min-koo.

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Panmunjom - 1 November 2015

1. South Korean Defence Minister Han Min-koo and United States Defence Secretary Ash Carter arriving at observation post in de-mlitarised zone (DMZ)

2. Han and Carter

3. Close of Carter

4. Various of Carter looking around the observation post

5. Wide of North Korean area

6. North Korean village

7. South Korean and North Korean soldiers at Joint Security Area (JSA)

8. Panmungok, northern side of Panmunjom

9. Various of Carter at Military Demarcation Line (MDL)

10. North Korean soldiers

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ash Carter, US Defence Secretary:

"But we continue, not only the United States, and not only the United States and South Korea, but also China and Japan and Russia, the so-called six-party talks, to call for the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula. So that remains our policy, we remain committed to achieving that negotiated outcome with North Korea."

12. Panmungok, northern side of Panmunjom

13. SOUNDBITE(English) Ash Carter, US Defence Secretary:

"And the ever-present danger is the reason why we speak of the ability to 'Fight Tonight,' that's the slogan up here, no one ever wants to have to do that. But deterrence is guaranteed through strength, and that's what the alliance is all about."

14. Various of Carter inside Peace House

15. North Korean soldiers walking down stairs

16. Carter looking around Joint Security Area (JSA)

The South Korean defence ministry warned North Korea on Friday that it would immediately punish any provocation after North Korea said it would "bury the South Korean provokers at the bottom of the sea for good".

"Our military will immediately strike and punish North Korea's provocation on the field without any hesitation or consideration which not only includes the origin of the provocation but also supporting forces and commanding power," said South Korean defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok in Seoul.

The North Korean statement earlier on Friday denounced South Korea for commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Yeonpyeong island shelling this Sunday.

"It is the retaliatory will of the stalwart fighters on the southwestern front greeting the fourth anniversary of their victory in the Yeonpyeong Island shelling to bury the provokers at the bottom of sea for good so that they may not say even about retrieval of defeat," said the statement.

"The mad provokers are bound to be beaten or killed by the KPA. It is their inevitable and miserable fate," it went on.

In November 2010, a North Korean artillery bombardment killed four South Koreans on Yeonpyeong.

The poorly marked western sea boundary has been the scene of several bloody naval skirmishes between the two Koreas in recent years.

South Korean defence ministry spokesman Kim said the South Korean military was watching North Korea's movement on all front lines, including the Northern Limit Line and the Demilitarised Zone.

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Seoul - 21 November 2014

1. South Korean defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok at briefing

2. Journalists sitting in briefing session

3. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Kim Min-seok, South Korean defence ministry spokesman:

"Our military will immediately strike and punish North Korea's provocation on the field without any hesitation or consideration, which not only includes the origin of the provocation but also supporting forces and commanding power. Now, our military is inspecting North Korea's movement through all front lines, like NLL (Northern Limit Line), DMZ (Demilitarised Zone) and so on. In addition, we maintain a thoroughgoing preparatory attitude. We strongly warn North Korea that it should keep in mind that its provocation is the worst choice that leads themselves to self-destruction that cannot be undone."

4. Briefing room

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1. Wide of plane carrying US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, arriving

2. Various of plane taxiing after arrival

3. Wide of red carpet in front of plane

4. Clinton descending stairs

5. Clinton being greeted by official

6. Pan from honour guard to Clinton walking

7. Clinton shaking hands with officials

8. Various of Clinton in front of car, waving

9. Clinton getting into car

10. Car departing

STORYLINE

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Seoul on Wednesday morning to hold a conference with US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and their South Korean counterparts later in the day.

Clinton and Gates will be visiting the Demilitarised Zone dividing the two Koreas on Wednesday to demonstrate their "steadfast commitment" to South Korea, where Washington stations 28,500 troops as deterrence against the North.

After their trip to DMZ, Clinton and Gates will meet with South Korean foreign minister Yu Myung-hwan and defence minister Kim Tae-young, and hold a joint press conference.

The border between North and South Korea remained calm on Wednesday amid North Korea's strong warning against South Korea's annual Hoguk military exercise.

A North Korean soldier stood in front of the Panmungak building, directly facing South Korean soldiers.

No unusual movement was reported from the area.

South Korea started its 12-day Hoguk (Safeguard) exercise on Monday.

This is a nationwide joint military exercise involving the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps in preparation for military action by North Korea.

The South Korean Defence Ministry has said that this year's exercise will involve about 330-thousand troops, the largest number since the it started in 1996.

North Korea's Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea released a statement on Wednesday stating that the South "clearly proved that it does not hope for dialogue, but has attempted to use it as a camouflage in order to escalate confrontation and war moves."

"The army and people of the DPRK will mercilessly wipe out the South Korean puppet forces if they provoke the DPRK even a bit," warned the statement.

The Korean Peninsula remains in a technical state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

About 28,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea to help deter potential aggression from North Korea.

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Paju - 12 November 2014

1. South Korean soldiers standing in line facing the North Korean building Panmungak and the Joint Security Area (JSA) in between

2. A North Korean soldier standing by the Panmungak building on the North Korea side of the border

3. Close-up of panel reading (Korean) "Panmungak"

4. A North Korean soldier standing by the Panmungak building

5. Close-up of a North Korean soldier

6. Various South and North Korean soldiers standing to attention facing each other

7. South Korean soldiers standing to attention

8. South Korean soldiers standing as soldier patrols behind them

9. Various of North Korean national flag on top of mast

10. A monument with inscription reading (Korean) "Our wondrous marshals Kim Il Song and Kim Jong Il will always be with us" standing in North Korean territory

11. North Korean buildings as seen from South Korea

12. North Korean security post and a North Korean soldier standing inside the post

13. North Korean hillside seen from South's side

14. North Korean building seen from South Korea

15. North Korean national flag flying on top of mast

South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo said on Monday "it is a violation for North Korea to shoot someone who is trying to defect".

He was speaking on a visit to the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the Korean Demilitarised Zone.

Song said Pyongyang violated the armistice agreement - signed between North and South Korea in 1953 - with the recent shooting of a North Korean soldier who defected to the South over the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) two weeks ago.

Four North Korean soldiers fired about 40 rounds at the soldier and hit him five times. It was the first shooting at the jointly controlled area of the heavily fortified border in more than 30 years, according to the South's military.

Panmunjom - 27 November 2017

1. South Korean Defence minister Song Young-moo (wearing non-military uniform) walking alongside US and Korean soldiers in Joint Security Area (JSA) of the Korea Demilitarised Zone (DMZ)

2. Various of Song, soldiers, government officials and reporters touring DMZ

3. Close of Song and soldiers

4. Two North Korean military officials looking on, one holding binoculars

5. Song, soldiers and government officials

6. Two North Korean military officials, one looking through binoculars, seen in distance past heads of South Korean officials

7. Song, soldiers, government officials and reporters in DMZ

8. Close of US soldier pointing at tree

9. Three North Korean military officials walking

10. North Korean soldier looking through binoculars

11. Wide of Song, soldiers, and government officials

12. Close of Song nodding

13. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Song Young-moo, South Korean Defence Minister:

"It is a violation for North Korea to shoot someone who is trying to defect to South (Korea). It is a violation for North Korea to cross the Military Demarcation Line (MDL). It is a violation for North Korean to possess automatic rifles. I am here today to remind North Korea of those matters through the media."

14. Three North Korean military officials walking away

15. Wide of Song, soldiers, government officials and reporters

16. Tilt down on JSA

17. Various of bullet holes in wall

18. Various of JSA grounds

19. Three North Korean military officials

20. Wide of JSA site

21. Sign reading (Korean) "Panmungak

22. Pan of buildings at JSA

Two South Korean soldiers were injured on Tuesday in an explosion in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) located between two Koreas, a South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman told a news conference in Seoul.

The soldiers were on a search operation when the blast occurred and were sent to a military hospital with leg injuries.

The cause of the explosion was being investigated, although most probably it was a land mine, Kim Min-seok said.

AP TELEVISION

Seoul - 4 August 2015

1. South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok arriving for briefing to give comments on explosion at Demilitarised Zone (DMZ)

2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Min-seok, South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman:

"First of all, we are sincerely sorry about the accident occurred during the (search) operation (at the DMZ), and we hope for a rapid recovery of the injured soldiers. Although it seems that the incident was a land mine explosion, we quickly took immediate actions and it has been reported that the injuries are not life-threatening."

3. Journalists at briefing

4. Close of Kim

5. Wide of briefing

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited the Demilitarized Zone marking the border between North and South Korea. He said the administration's goal is not war, but the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

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Panmunjom – 27 October 2017

1. US Defense Sec. Jim Mattis and South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo getting DMZ tour

2. Building on North Korean side of border

3. Western tourists on North Korean side, taking group photo, watching

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mattis, US Defense Secretary

"North Korean provocations continue to threaten regional and world peace. And despite the unanimous condemnation of the United Nations Security Council, they still proceed."

5. North Korean soldier

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Mattis, US Defense Secretary

"As US Secretary of State (Rex) Tillerson has made clear, our goal is not war, but rather the complete verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."

7. Mattis and Song shake hands

US President Donald Trump said Sunday the US and North Korea are in the "final stage of working out" the surprise quick meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone of the Korean border.

Trump made the remark in an expanded meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and officials of the two countries.

Trump and Moon have since confirmed that Trump will meet Kim at the border later on Sunday.

Trump arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a two-day visit, following his trip to Osaka for the G20 Summit.

The two leaders will hold a joint news conference following the luncheon, and Trump is scheduled to visit the demilitarized zone near the border after leaving the presidential office.

Seoul – 30 June 2019  

1. South Korean President Moon Jae-in arriving at expanded meeting

2. US President Donald Trump arriving at expanded meeting

3. Various of meeting

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

"I've been told that Kim Jong Un would like to meet and it looks like they're in the final stages of working out, just a very quick meeting. Because we are at the DMZ anyway at the border, we are at the DMZ. And I look forward to say hello if that all finally works out. I guess there is always a chance that it might work out, but it sounds like the teams  would like it to work out, so that's good."

5. Various of meeting

US President Donald Trump said Sunday the US and North Korea are in the "final stage of working out" the surprise quick meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone of the Korean border.

Trump made the remark in an expanded meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and officials of the two countries.

Trump and Moon have since confirmed that Trump will meet Kim at the border later on Sunday.

Trump arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a two-day visit, following his trip to Osaka for the G20 Summit.

The two leaders will hold a joint news conference following the luncheon, and Trump is scheduled to visit the demilitarized zone near the border after leaving the presidential office.

Seoul – 30 June 2019  

1. South Korean President Moon Jae-in arriving at expanded meeting

2. US President Donald Trump arriving at expanded meeting

3. Various of meeting

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

"I've been told that Kim Jong Un would like to meet and it looks like they're in the final stages of working out, just a very quick meeting. Because we are at the DMZ anyway at the border, we are at the DMZ. And I look forward to say hello if that all finally works out. I guess there is always a chance that it might work out, but it sounds like the teams  would like it to work out, so that's good."

5. Various of meeting

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited the Joint Security Area and Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) of the Korean Peninsula on Friday.

Tillerson, who is on a two-day visit to South Korea as part of his Asia tour, arrived at Osan Air Base earlier on Friday and went straight to the DMZ accompanied by General Vincent Brooks, commander of US Forces Korea.

During his two-day stay, the Secretary of State will also meet with Prime Minister and acting leader Hwang Kyo-ahn and Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se.

Seoul is the second stop for Tillerson after Japan on his first Asia tour as US Secretary of State.

Panmunjom - 17 March 2017

1. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arriving

2. Various of Tillerson posing for photographs

3. North Korean soldier taking picture

4. Tillerson walking towards the Military Demarcation Line

5. Mid of Tillerson surrounded by US soldiers

6. Pan right from North Korean soldier taking picture of Tillerson to Tillerson

7. Tillerson posing photograph in front of Military Demarcation Line

8. Close of Tillerson talking to General Vincent Brooks, commander of US Forces Korea

9. North Korean soldiers watching

10. Close of Tillerson

11. Wide of Tillerson

12. Mid of Tillerson

13. Various of North Korea's visitors centre, foreign tourists watching

14. North Korean soldiers

15. South Korean soldiers in foreground and North Korean soldiers in background

16. Wide of Panmunjom

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Seoul - 22 May, 2015

1. South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong-cheol entering room for briefing

2. Wide of the briefing

3. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lim Byeong-cheol, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman:

"Our government is urging North Korea to look back on its past wrongdoings and restrain itself as it is disgracing our citizens' self-esteem and slandering us, belonging to the same race, by emphasising North Korea's 'Socialism in One Country' and 'our people' and using crude and vulgar expressions that are ignoring the least courtesy, common sense, and international rule."

4. Various cutaways

5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lim Byeong-cheol, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman:

"We are demanding North Korea to immediately stop any kind of behaviour hurting separated families, and we insist they show a more responsible attitude towards solving the separated families issue."

6. Cutaway of briefing

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lim Byeong-cheol, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman:

"If the North's report is true, we believe that the event has deviated from one that was promoted as non-political, as our government initially understands. So, we are looking forward for this event to be in accordance with South Korea's law once they enter South Korea."

8. Reporters

9. Lim leaving

STORYLINE

South Korea on Friday called on North Korea to stop its "slandering" after a recent series of critical statements made by the North Korean government.

One of the North's recent criticisms was aimed at South Korean President Park Geun-hye after the South called for a resumption in efforts to reunite families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

The North blamed the South for souring ties.

South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong-cheol on Friday called on the North to "show a more responsible attitude towards solving the separated families issue."

Lim also said that if a group of female peace activists, who embarked on a symbolic march across the Demilitarised Zone aimed at ending the tensions between the Koreas, praised North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, the South no longer considered it a "non-political" campaign.

The rare crossing of the DMZ, approved by both Koreas, is to take place on Sunday.

The event has raised controversy, with critics accusing the group of being propaganda pawns for the totalitarian North Korean government.

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South Korea's military said Thursday it is investigating a North Korean soldier who was found crossing the inter-Korean border via river Wednesday night and has expressed a desire to defect to the South.

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson Kim Jun-rak didn't provide further details.

North Korea is extremely sensitive about high-profile defections.

Seoul – 1 August 2019  

1. Wide of South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Kim Jun-rak

2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Jun-rak, South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson:

"Personnel secured within the Central Front DMZ (demilitarized zone) have been identified as an active-duty soldier. Since we are currently in the process of identifying and processing his personal information, we will explain the details separately."

3. Wide of news briefing

Amid tensions between the United States and North Korea, there was no special movement observed from the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Thursday.

Panmunjom is where an armistice was signed to pause the 1950-53 Korean War, with North Korea and China on one side and the American-led UN Command on the other.

No civilians live there, and a cluster of blue huts form a Joint Security Area overseen by North Korea and the UN Command.

It's located in the 248-kilometre (154-mile)-long Demilitarized Zone that forms the de facto Korean border.

The DMZ is guarded on both sides by hundreds of thousands of combat-ready troops, razor-wire fences and tank traps.

More than a million mines are believed to be buried inside it.

Today also marks the South Korea's 69th Armed Forces Day and South Korean president Moon Jae-in said that South Korea's aim has not changed in making Korean peninsula denuclearised.

Panmunjom – 28 September 2017

1. Wide of Panmunjom JSA (Joint Security Area)

2. North Korean soldier

3. Wide of JSA, placard reading (Korean) "Panmungak"

4. North Korean soldier

5. Wide of Panmunjom

6. Shift focus from JSA soldier to North Korean Soldier

7. South Korean JSA soldiers

8. North Korean soldier

9. Tilt up from South Korean soldier to North Korean soldier

10. Wide of Kijong-dong village (also called Peace village)

11. North Korean flag

12. Wide of Kijong-dong village

13. North Korean tower reading (Korean) "Our respected leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il will always be with us"

14. Houses in Kijong-dong village

15. North Korean guard post

16. Various of "Bridge of No Return"

17. North Korean soldier with telescope

18. North Koran flag

19. Pan of Kijong-dong village

South Korean authorities have invited journalists to the venue of the upcoming inter-Korean summit talks in the border village of Panmunjom.

Journalists were invited for a tour of various places along the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) on Wednesday including the Joint Security Area (JSA) and Peace House.

The building located on the South Korean side of Panmunjom is set to be the site of a historic meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in later this month.

The 2018 inter-Korean summit is scheduled to take place on 27 April.

Panmunjom - 18 April 2018

1. Exterior of Peace House seen from South Korean side

2. Inscription on stone reading (Korean) "Peace House"

3. Various of building under construction

4. Windows

5. Exterior of building

6. Various of soldier

7. Exterior of building

8. Wide of Joint Security Area (JSA)

9. North Korean soldier standing guard

10. Close of gun

11. Sign above door reading (Korean) "Panmungak"

12. Soldiers guarding JSA

SHOTLIST

AP TELEVISION

1. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shaking hands with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak

2. Various of meeting between Ban and Lee

3. Wide of media conference at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club

4. Cutaway of media

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:

"We expect that they (North Koreans) will return to the six-party-talks and cooperate fully in realising the denuclearised Korean peninsula."

6. Wide of media conference

7. Cutaway of media

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:

"For my part, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, I will do my best (during the G20 Seoul Summit) to ensure that the leaders of the world's biggest and strongest economies build solutions for the poorest and the most vulnerable people around the world, into their plans."

9. Ban shaking hands with officials

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10. Zoom in to ceremony to honour veterans of 1950's Jangjin "Chosin" Reservoir battle, at Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul

11. Commander of US Forces in South Korea General Walter Sharp at ceremony

12. Tilt-up of wreath

13. Close of US and South Korean flags

14. SOUNDBITE (English) General Walter Sharp, Commander of US Forces in South Korea:

"We who continue in your foot steps and work to deter aggression on the Korean Peninsula vow that we will continue to sweat, and bleed if necessary, to fulfil our regional UN mandate of restoring international peace and stability as long as a threat remains. Should deterrence fail, we will always be ready and remain ready to fight and win."

15. Participants clapping

16. Close of banner with a soldier's photo

17. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Kim Tae-young, South Korean Defence Minister:

"As the host for this G20 meeting, the Republic of Korea will lead the historical summons contributing to the currency issue, reform of global financial organisations and continuing development of the global village."

18. Various of US honour guards at ceremony

19. Various of South Korean honour guards performing

20. Mid of drummers

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21. Various of South African President Jacob Zuma's plane taxiing on runway

22. Various of Zuma disembarking plane with his wife and meeting officials

23. Wide of plane and officials

24. Zuma walking towards vehicle

25. Zuma's convoy leaving airport

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26. Activists gathered to protest against the US and the South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA); two activists wearing caricature masks of US president Barack Obama and South Korean president Lee Myung-Bak

27. Various of activists chanting

28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cathy Feingold, Director of the International Department of American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisations:

"We feel that at this point it (South Korea-US FTA) still represents corporate interests. It does not represents the interests of workers. We are concerned about the impact it will have on both of our industrial sectors, on the technology sector of the United States, as well as the agricultural sector here in South Korea."

29. Close of an activist tearing a sign reading (Korean): 'South Korea-US FTA. Complete Opening of Agriculture'

30. Activist throwing ripped up pieces of paper

STORYLINE

As leaders began arriving for the Group of 20 Summit, the Secretary General of the United Nations, said on Wednesday in Seoul that he expects North Korea to return to the nuclear talks and fully cooperate to denuclearise the Korean Peninsula.

Ban Ki-moon arrived in Seoul to attend the G20 Summit, which is being held in Asia for the first time.

After his arrival, Ban held talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak at the presidential office, before addressing the media at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club.

Ban said, even though North Korea had conducted several nuclear tests in the past and composed threatening actions like firing missiles, he expects North Korea to return to the six-party-talks to realise the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea carried out two nuclear tests in 2006 and in 2009 in the country's northeastern area, drawing international sanctions each time.

Just before the second test, North Korea walked out of six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear programmes.

North Korea has recently expressed its willingness to rejoin the negotiations, which involve the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan.

Seoul and Washington have said North Korea must first take specific moves to demonstrate its sincerity.

As the major rich and developing nations' leaders gathered for Group of 20 summit, South Korean soldiers along with US forces, commemorated the fallen soldiers of a battle during 1950's Korean war.

During the ceremony, Commander of the US Forces in South Korea General Walter Sharp said that the US was ready "to deter aggression on the Korean Peninsula."

"Should deterrence fail, we will always be ready and remain ready to fight and win," he added.

Meanwhile during the ceremony, South Korean Defence Minister Kim Tae-young, said that his country was aiming to contribute to various global issues which will be addressed in the upcoming summit, including the "currency issue."

Tensions over currencies and trade gaps have been simmering in recent weeks, especially after America's move to launch a new 600 (b) billion US dollar stimulus package raised concerns of new flows of money into Asian economies.

US President Barack Obama emphasised US concerns shortly before his expected arrival in Seoul, speaking out in Indonesia about countries intervening in currency markets to maintain an advantage.

Obama also took a veiled shot at China for keeping its own currency, the yuan, low to benefit Chinese exporters.

There is huge expectation for the G20 to manage a way out of this worsening economic standoff.

South Korea's President Lee Myung Bak has identified the global currency dispute, reform of the International Monetary Fund, and development of poorer economies as major concerns for this G20 summit to address.

Regarding the summit, Ban added that he would do his best as the Secretary-General of the UN to ensure the world leaders find solutions for the poorest and the most vulnerable people around the world.

The forum, established in 1999, features leaders from a combination of rich nations, developing economies, rising powers and consumers and producers of natural resources.

It took the financial crisis, however, to thrust the G-20 into a position of global leadership, supplanting the Group of Seven club of advanced nations.

The leaders are also widely expected to express support for a proposal to give developing countries more voting power at the International Monetary Fund and more seats on the board of the key global lender.

South Korea has deployed a 50-thousand-strong security force to protect the G20 summit venue.

Protest rallies have been banned within two kilometres (1.2 miles) of the leaders' meeting.

Despite those measures, approximately 70 activists opposing the US and the South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) gathered in front of a South Korean government building to denounce the FTA negotiations.

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Panmunjom – 27 April 2018

1. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shaking hands

2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader:

"There are a lot of people hoping (for the best result). I am worried we will disappoint them if we do not follow up on any good agreements and announcements from the past meetings, and also if we do not make this meeting the opportunity to improve our relationship. Therefore I want to say that we should be more determined so we can look back at the lost 10 years and say it was not wasted. I hope we can meet frequently to solve problems between the two."

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4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Moon Jae-in, South Korean President:

"I hope we can have a conversation with big results in mind and reach an agreement, so we can give our citizens and everyone around the world, who hope for peace, a big gift."

++BLACK FRAMES++

6. Wide of summit

STORYLINE:

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held the first North-South Korea summit in more than a decade on Friday.

Kim said he's ready for "heartfelt, sincere and honest" talks with Moon on pending issues and that the Koreas must not repeat the past where they were "unable to fulfill our agreements."

Kim said he was worried they would disppoint people "if we do not follow up on any good agreements and announcements from the past meetings."

He added that he hoped the two could "meet frequently" to resolve issues.

Kim did not make any direct mention of the North Korean nuclear issue in the part of his talks with Moon that were shown on live television.

Moon in response there were high expectations surrounding the inter-Korean summit and that they produce an agreement that would please the people of Koreas and also "everyone around the world, who hope for peace."

Kim gave his younger sister Kim Yo Jong a place at the negotiating table.

She was in Kim's delegation as he walked across the line that divides the two Koreas on Friday morning and took a seat beside him as the first round of talks started.

The only other North Korean official present was former intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol, the top official in charge of relations with the South.

Kim Yo Jong has emerged as the most visible member of Kim Jong Un's regime after her brother - since she became the first member of the ruling North Korean family to travel to the South in early February for the Olympics.

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SHOTLIST:

Seoul - 17 July 2003

1. Briefing by South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Defence Ministry

2. Reporters at the briefing

3. Pull out from a map showing where fire was exchanged

4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Major Lee Hong-ki, South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff:

"Today North Korean soldiers fired at our guard post on the DMZ (Demilitarised Zone). North Korean soldiers fired four rounds of (suspected) machine gun at our guard post at 6 a.m."

5. Various of the briefing

6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Major Lee Hong-ki, South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff:

"In response, our (South Korean) soldiers fired back seventeen rounds of machine gun at 6:11a.m according to the rules of engagement. At the same time we issued a warning broadcast to North Korea. There has not been any response from North Korea until now. No casualties were caused by the North Korean soldiers' firing. Now the Joint Chiefs of Staff are investigating the possibility of intentional provocation."

File - DMZ, 1999

7. Various of South Korean soldiers patrolling Military Demarcation Line (MDL/border line) inside of DMZ (Demilitarised Zone).

8. Wide shot of North Korean guard post near MDL

9. Travelling shot of S. Korean soldiers point gun

10. Medium shot of an armed S. Korean soldier

Seoul - 17 July 2003

11. Map showing area where incident took place map

12. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Major Lee Hong-ki, South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff

"After the investigation and based on the result of the investigation, we will take appropriate measures about the incident."

13. Zoom out of Major Lee explaining the incident using the map

14. Cutaway

15. Major Lee explaining the incident

STORYLINE

There was a brief exchange of fire between South and North Korean soldiers along their border on Thursday.

The South Korean military said it did not suffer casualties.

It was not immediately known whether any North Korean troops were injured or killed in the firefight in the Demilitarised Zone, a buffer area that was created at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War to keep opposing armies apart.

Tension on the Korean Peninsula is high over North Korea's suspected development of nuclear weapons, though such shooting incidents in the DMZ are rare.

In recent years, however, negotiations and reconciliation efforts have moved forward despite such outbreaks of violence.

In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Dan Hetlage said "The Pentagon is aware of the incident but has no comment."

Major Lee of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North Korean fire came from a machine gun, and that the South was using a machine gun called a K-3.

Three of the North Korean bullets hit the wall of a South Korean guard post three-hundred meters away, according to the South Korean military.

The South Koreans issued a loudspeaker broadcast after returning fire, telling the North Koreans that they were in "clear violation" of the terms of the armistice that ended the Korean War.

"Immediately stop the provocation," said the broadcast.

The shootout occurred on a national holiday in South Korea that commemorates its 1948 Constitution. The Koreas were divided at the end of World War II.

Under the armistice, North and South Korean soldiers can patrol in the DMZ, but they are not allowed to move around with heavy weapons such as machine guns.

Lee, who did not give his first name, said the incident happened near the South Korean town of Yonchon, sixty kilometres (thirty-five miles) north of the South Korean capital, Seoul.

The nuclear dispute flared in October when U.S. officials said North Korea admitted it had a clandestine nuclear program in violation of a 1994 agreement with Washington.

The United States and its allies suspended fuel shipments promised under the 1994 deal, and Pyongyang retaliated by expelling U.N. nuclear monitors, restarting nuclear facilities and withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Members of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) on Friday visited the symbolic truce village of Panmunjom, which divides North and South Korea.

The members looked around the heavily armed demilitarised zone (DMZ) and were briefed by United Nations Command officials at the Freedom House located in the Joint Security Area (JSA).

The members are visiting Seoul this week for talks on ways to strengthen international nuclear non-proliferation.

AP TELEVISION

Paju - 26 June 2015

1. Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), Lassina Zerbo (centre) and members of Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) posing for group photo during their tour of Demilitarised Zone (DMZ)

2. Close of Zerbo

3. North Korean soldier on the North Korean side of DMZ

4. Various of Zerbo and the members of GEM touring Panmunjom (area on the border between North and South Korea)

5. Soldiers on South Korean side of Panmunjom

6. GEM officials

7. North Korean soldier standing to attention

8. Wide of Panmunjom

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation:

"I think we are coming with a message of peace for both sides to be able to engage in dialogue, we are encouraging dialogue from the North Koreans for them to be able to talk to their neighbours and then try to fit in the international community framework where they are asked to observe a moratorium on nuclear testing and refrain from testing and that's the message that we are doing. And being here, the 65th Anniversary, it's a clear message to them that we are here for peace and we want them to observe peace with the international community."

10. North Korean soldier walking along

11. Various of South Korean soldiers

12. Zerbo and GEM members standing around

13. Various of Zerbo and GEM members in meeting room at Panmunjom

SHOTLIST:

AP TELEVISION

1. South Korean delegates arriving at the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine office before heading to the Kaesong Industrial Complex for working-level talks

2. Suh Ho, director-general of the South Korean Unification Ministry's Inter-Korean District Support Directorate, talking to media

3. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Suh Ho, Director-general, South Korean Unification Ministry's Inter-Korean District Support Directorate:

"We will put our efforts into accomplishing developmental normalisation of the Kaesong Industrial Complex through an agreement in accordance with common sense and international rules, based on our government's 'trust-building process' in the Korean Peninsula. We will do our best and will come back."

4. Various of Suh Ho and delegation leaving

5. Wide of Kim Hak-kwon, joint chairman of the Emergency Committee for the Normalisation of Operations at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, speaking to media

6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Hak-kwon, Joint Chairman, Emergency Committee for the Normalisation of Operations at the Kaesong Industrial Complex

"From the point of view of those of us who run businesses at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, we hope the two Koreas come to an agreement as soon as possible so that operations at the Kaesong Industrial Complex can be normalised."

7. Various of South Korean delegation and company officials leaving

8. Various of buses taking South Korean delegation and company officials

9. Wide of buses going through by the security check-point

10. Various of buses and other vehicles on road

STORYLINE:

A South Korean delegation headed to the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea on Wednesday to hold working-level talks on restarting the jointly run factory park.

The complex, just north of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas, was the centrepiece of cross-border co-operation projects hatched during a previous era of warming ties.

But it was closed in April as tensions rose between the rivals when North Korea angrily reacted to South Korea's annual military exercises with the US.

North Korea pulled its 53-thousand workers out of the industrial park, and South Korea then ordered its managers to leave as well, against their wishes.

Tension later gradually eased after North Korea toned down its warlike rhetoric.

Officials of the two Koreas met last month and agreed to hold senior-level talks on Kaesong and other inter-Korean issues but the plan collapsed over a protocol dispute.

However, working-level talks took place last week at a North Korean building located in the truce village of Panmunjom, inside the DMZ, and the upcoming talks expected to take place at the Kaesong Industrial Complex will the second round of the talks.

"We will put our efforts into accomplishing developmental normalisation of the Kaesong Industrial Complex through an agreement in accordance with common sense and international rules, based on our government's 'trust-building process' in the Korean Peninsula. We will do our best and will come back," said Suh Ho, director-general of the South Korean Unification Ministry's Inter-Korean District Support Directorate.

Officials from several South Korean companies accompanied the government delegation to inspect their facilities and figure out which products they can bring out.

"We hope the two Koreas come to an agreement as soon as possible so that operations at the Kaesong Industrial Complex can be normalised," said Kim Hak-kwon, joint chairman of the Emergency Committee for the Normalisation of Operations at the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

The closing of Kaesong has dealt a symbolic blow to reconciliation efforts between the divided Koreas.

The project, which facilitated almost 2 billion (b) US dollars a year in cross-border trade, had been the last joint project left as relations soured over the past five years.