Timeline: Threats and stalemate one year after Trump last met North Korea's Kim

June 16, 2020:

North Korea blew up a liaison office in Kaesong used for joint talks after threatening action if defectors continued with a campaign sending propaganda leaflets into the North.

June 24, 2020:

State media announced that Kim had decided to suspend military action plans that North Korea had threatened to carry out against the South.

June 25, 2020:

Marking 70 years since the beginning of the 1950-1953 Korean War, North Korea’s foreign ministry released a report defending the country’s nuclear weapons programme and vowing to “never shrink from this road we have chosen.” State media, however, did not report any of the anti-U.S. mass rallies that have often been held on that anniversary in the past.