2024 in North Korea

The following is a list of events from the year 2024 in North Korea.

January

 * January 5 – North Korea fires 200 artillery shells near South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, prompting evacuations.
 * January 15 – North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un says that Korean reunification is "no longer possible" and asks the Supreme People's Assembly to amend the constitution to formally recognize South Korea as a separate state.
 * January 16 – Kim Jong Un declares South Korea as the "primary foe", rejects unification, and calls for war planning, severing ties and closing organizations amid escalating tensions.
 * January 19 – North Korea announces that it has tested a nuclear weapon delivered by an unmanned underwater drone system in the Sea of Japan.
 * January 19-23 – The Arch of Reunification is demolished some time between the said dates, according to satellite imagery.

March

 * March 29 –
 * North Korean state media cites foreign minister Choe Son Hui as saying that North Korea rejects any talks with Japan on any issue, including the Japanese abductees, after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he was willing to meet in person with Kim Jong Un.
 * Russia vetoes the continuation of the monitoring of UN sanctions on the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

April

 * April 1 – North Korea fires a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan near South Korean territory.
 * April 23 – North Korea claims it has tested a new command-and-control system in a simulated nuclear counterstrike.

May

 * 27 May – North Korea announces the failure of an attempt to launch its second spy satellite into orbit after the rocket carrying it explodes mid-air.
 * 29 May – North Korea deploys 260 balloons carrying garbage and possible human waste over South Korea, which Pyongyang says is in retaliation for balloons sent into the North by anti-regime activists.
 * 30 May – North Korea launches a series of short-range ballistic missiles from Sunan-guyok towards the sea near South Korea.

June

 * 4 June – The State Council of South Korea suspends the 2018 Panmunjom Declaration due to border tensions over balloons sent by North Korea.
 * 6 June – North Korea receives 200,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets, U.S. bills, and USB sticks containing K-pop songs and South Korean dramas to North Korea with 10 balloons, sent by a South Korean activists’ group led by North Korean defector Park Sang-hak in retaliation for North Korea sending balloons carrying trash to South Korea.
 * 9 June – A group of North Korean soldiers enter the South Korean side of the DMZ, prompting warning shots from South Korean forces that force them to retreat.
 * 18 June – A group of North Korean soldiers enter the South Korean side of the central section of the DMZ, prompting warning shots from South Korean forces that force them to retreat.
 * 19 June – Russian president Vladimir Putin visits Pyongyang as part of the first visit of a Russian leader to North Korea since 2000, the two sign an agreement to grant mutual aid and support in case either nation faces aggression.
 * 20 June – A group of North Korean soldiers enter the South Korean side of the DMZ, prompting warning shots from South Korean forces that force them to retreat.

July

 * 16 July – The South Korean National Intelligence Service announces the defection of North Korean diplomat Ri Il Kyu and his family from his posting in Cuba in November 2023.

Scheduled

 * 26 July – 11 August 2024: North Korea at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Deaths

 * 11 January – Kim Kyong-ok, 93, military officer, deputy (1998–2003) and member of the central military commission (2010–2021).
 * 20 January – Choe Thae-bok, 93, politician, chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly (1998–2019).
 * 7 May – Kim Ki-nam, 94, politician, director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party of Korea (1989–2017).