2017–2018 North Korea crisis

2017–2018 North Korea crisis
	Part of the inter-Korean conflict
	; North Korea's Hwasong-14 launch in July 2017
Date	8 April 2017 – 12 June 2018 ; (1 year, 2 months and 4 days)
Location	Korean Peninsula; Sea of Japan (East Sea); North Pacific Ocean;
Result	Panmunjom Declaration signed at the April 2018 inter-Korean summit; Declare intention on signing a peace treaty to declare Korean War de jure over sometime in 2018 or 2019; Kim Jong Un becomes the first North Korean leader to visit South Korea; Donald Trump becomes the first US president to visit the DMZ; US-North Korea meeting in Singapore concluded with a joint declaration by both leaders;
Territorial; changes	Northern Limit Line area becomes a maritime peace zone
Parties involved in the crisis
North Korea	South Korea United States; Japan; United Kingdom; Australia;
Commanders and leaders
Kim Jong Un	Moon Jae-in Donald Trump; Shinzō Abe; Theresa May; Malcolm Turnbull;

The 2017–2018 North Korea crisis was a period of heightened tension between North Korea and the United States throughout 2017. The crisis began early in 2017 when North Korea conducted a series of missile and nuclear tests that demonstrated the country's ability to launch ballistic missiles beyond its immediate region, suggesting their nuclear weapons capability was developing at a faster rate than had been assessed by U.S. intelligence. Both countries started exchanging increasingly heated rhetoric, including nuclear threats and personal attacks between the two leaders, which, compounded by a joint U.S.–South Korea military exercise undertaken in August and North Korea's sixth nuclear test in September, raised international tensions in the region and beyond and stoked fears about a possible nuclear conflict between the two nations. In addition, North Korea also threatened Australia twice with nuclear strikes throughout the year for their allegiance with the United States.

Tensions began to decline in 2018, with North Korea announcing the restoration of the Seoul–Pyongyang hotline and agreeing to hold talks with South Korea about participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Diplomatic activity flourished during the next few months, with the suspension of nuclear and missile tests by North Korea, and the 2018 inter-Korean summit in late April which culminated in the signing of the Panmunjom Declaration on 27 April 2018. An unprecedented bilateral summit between Kim and Trump was held in Singapore on 12 June 2018. It resulted in a joint declaration calling for the "full denuclearization of the Korean peninsula". A second summit between Kim and Trump took place in Hanoi, Vietnam on 27–28 February 2019. Though talks there broke down, a third summit took place in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on 30 June 2019, with Trump becoming the first sitting US president to visit North Korea. Follow-up talks later in 2019, however, broke down within hours.

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