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| 2000, March |
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| Peace talks in Geneva and secret meetings between leaders of South Korea and several Western powers took place, leading up to further negotiations. | 1 |
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| May 19 |
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| South Korean prime minister Park Tae Joon resigned his position after a financial scandal involving him was uncovered soon after he had taken office. | 2 |
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| June 13–15 |
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| South Korean president Kim and North Korean president Kim Jong Il met for peace and unification talks in Pyongyang. Greatly calming tensions between north and south, the historic summit marked the first meeting of the countries' two heads of state. Pres. Kim Tae-jung was subsequently named to be awarded the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize. | 3 |
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| July 21 |
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| Russian president Vladimir Putin met with North Korean president Kim in a conference in the course of which Kim pledged to discontinue North Korea's long-range missile program. In exchange, North Korea would require help from other nations that would enable it to secure rockets with which to send satellites into space. | 4 |
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| Aug. 15–18 |
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| Following a summer of peace conferences, dozens of North and South Korean families that had been separated because of war were reunited with their relatives in Seoul, South Korea. | 5 |
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