CHRONOLOGY OF NORTH SOUTH RELATIONS 1991-1992

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29 January 1992
Chronology of North-South Relations
1991-92
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Inter-Korean Developments Related Events
1 January 1991
Kim Il-song's New Year address offers a
modification of his 10-year old Koryo
Confederation scheme, hoping to make it
more palatable to the South and forestall a
German-style reunification.
15 January 1991
North and South sports officials agree to form
a single team for the World Table Tennis
Championships in Japan and the Sixth World
(b)(3) Youth Soccer Championships in Portugal but
differ over method of selection, training and
naming of the team leader.
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16 January 1991
Onset of Persian Gulf air
war; P'yongyang denounces
United States and South
Korean involvement.
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30 January 1991
North and South sports officials hold third
round of talks aimed at forming unified teams
for the World Table Tennis Championships
and other international sports events but fail
to make progress or set a date for the next
talks. North Korea threatens to boycott sports
talks in protest over US-South Korean military
exercise Team Spirit-91.
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30-31 January 1991
First round of largely
ceremonial Japan-North
Korea normalization talks
takes place in Puonaian
8 February 1991
North Korea accepts South Korean letter
requesting permission to pass through
Panmunjom to attend Inter-Parliamentary
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Union (IPU) meeting hosted by Pyongyang in
April. North Korea passes letters addressed to
South Korea's three opposition parties--
omitting the ruling party�proposing a
reunification conference.
11 February 1991
During sports talks at Panmunjom. North
and South Korea settle differences over
formation of joint teams for two international
sports events; first time in 45 years the two
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sides will play on the same team.
18 February 1991
North Korea calls off talks between Prime
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also refuses to accept second letter from Seoi.1
regarding IPU meeting.
24 February 1991
Onset of Persian Gul
ground war.
26 February 1991
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North and South Korea sign agreement to
form a single soccer team.
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28 February 1991
(b)(3) South Korea officially asks International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to impose
sanctions on North Korea if Pyongyang fails to
sign a nuclear safeguards agreement by June.
11-15 March 1991
North Korea and Japan
meet in Tokyo for second
round of normalization
talks. Pyongyang shows
some flexibility on
terminology for economic
aspects but hardens
position on travel for
Japanese wives in the
North. Tokyo stresses need
for progress in North-South
dialogue and signing of
IAEA safeauards agreement.
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22 March 1991
North Korean government paper Mirilu Choson
calls on South Korea to drop plans for entry
into United Nations, charging separate
membership would destroy chances for
reunification.
25 March 1991
Military Armistice
Commission names South
Korean general senior
member of UN Command for
first time. North Korea
refuses to accept credentials
Pyongyang subsequently
particOates in regular low-
level MAC meetings.
27 March 1991
North Korea grants permission for 25-member
South Korean delegation to pass through
Panmunjom to participate in 85th IPU
meeting in Pyongyang.
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2 April 1991
South Korea proposes resumption of llth
round of Red Cross talks in Pyongyang.
8 April 1991
South Korean Prime Minister proposes
resumption of North-So
talks in May.
10 April 1991
(b)(3) North and South liaison officials meet at
Panmunjom to exchange namelists fosnccer
players prior to team selection games.LJ
17 April 1991
South Korean President of World Korean
Ethnic Festival Committee invites North Korea
to send a team to the Second Ethnic-Korean
Sports Meet in Seoul cheduiediir
September.
South Korean Defense Minister declares Seoul
might conduct a commando raid on the
North's nuclear reactor. North Korean
response hints Pyongyang might withdraw its
Invitation to Seoul to attend the IPU meeting.
24 April 1991
Joint North-South table tennis team
In Japan.
29 April - 4 May 1991
Pyongyang.
South Korean assemblymen attend 85th
general meeting. hosted by r
3 May 1991
North Korea refuses permission for IPU
participants from Brazil, Romania, and
Guatemala to transit P'anmu
Seoul
9 April 1991
China opens trade office in
Seoul.
19-20 April 1991
Soviet President Gorbachev
visits South Korea.
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6-9 May 1991
North Korean 70-member soccer contingent
visits South Korea for team selection trials
10 May 1991
South Korean soccer team enters North Korea
through P'anmunjom for final tryout game;
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traveled to the North via P'anmunjom.
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18 May 1991
South Korean government announces plans to
lift ban in June on North Korean publications
In three stages, beginning with removal of
restrictions on non-political North Korean
publications and films.
21 May 1991
Unified Korean soccer team leaves for Portugal
to compete in Sixth World Youth Soccer
Championship.
28 May 1991
North Korean Foreign Ministry announces
P'yongyang will apply unilaterally for UN
membership, claiming that if South Korea
joins alone, Seoul will present Korean issues
in a biased manner.
14 June 1991
Joint North-South Korean soccer team
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22-25 May 1991
North Korea and Japan
meet in Belling for third
round of normalization
talks.
20-23 June 1991
Retired General Richard
Stilwell and Professor
Robert Scalapiru) pay
unofficial visit to
Pyongyang; hold talks with
Foreign Minister Kim Yong-
nrun and Party Secret
Kim Yong-sun.
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28-29 June 1991
Pyongyang hosts ceremony to disband unified
soccer team, and South Korea players return
to the South through P'anmunjom.
8 July 1991
North Korea applies to join United Nations,
surprising and disappointing Seoul which
preferred a ioint submission of applications.
11 July 1991
North Korean Prime Minister responds to
South's call for resumption of Prime
Ministerial dialogue by suggesting meeting in
August; South Korea agrees.
15 July 1991
South offers its proposal for a pan-national
celebration of 15 August (Liberation Day),
suggesting a grand march from Mt. Paektu in
the North to Mt. HaIla in the South and family
reunions on Chusok (Korean Thanksgiving) for
people aged 70 and over.
16 July 1991
North Korea agrees to--but does not sign--an
IAEA safeguards agreement in Vienna:
stipulates agreement will enter into force
upon ratification of its legislature.
19 July 1991
(b)(3) Working-level officials meet in P'anmunjom to
arrange fourth round of Prime Ministerial
talks on 27 August.
1 20 July 1991
Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the
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, Fatherland Vice Chairman Yun Ki-pok
proposes sending seven delegates to Seoul
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Joint celebration of Liberation Day.
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24 June 1991
North Korea returns remains
of 11 American soldiers,
missing in action during the
Korean war. to US
Congressional deleaation at
Panmunjorn
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21 July 1991
South Korea rejects North Korea's offer to
send delegation to Seoul for 25 July meeting
to arrange pan-national rally on 15 August;
urges North to meet at P'anmunjom to 'discuss
joint celebration, which includes cross-
country march and academic SVMDOSiUM on
reunification.
22 July 1991
North Korea agrees to accept 5,000 tons rice
in exchange for coal and cement. accordin to
South Korean trading company officials.
27 July 1991
South Korea ships 5,000 tons rice to North
Korea on Grenadan freighter in first non-
government direct trade between the two
sides. North is expected to ship 40,000 tons
coal to South as part of barter deal.
31 July 1991
North proposes resumption of sports talks
aimed at forming a unified team for 1992
Olympic Games in Barcelona and suggests 17
August at P'anmunjom; South agrees.
South Korea says it will consider talks with
North Korea to discuss nuclear
nonproliferation but insists Pyongyang allow
full international insnections of its mirlear
facilities.
3 August 1991
Seoul press reports 5,000 tons of South
Korean rice are unloaded at Najin Port in
North Korea, completing the first publicly
acknowledged direct shipment of goods
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report the transaction.
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31 July 1991
North Koreanjudo athlete Yi
Chang-su defects to South
Korea during 17th World
Judo Championships in
Barcelona, Spain; arrwesjrr
Seoul on 4 August.
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5 August 1991
North and South Korean liaison officials meet
at P'anmunjom for working level discussions
on procedures and agenda for fourth round of
full dress Prime Ministerial talks scheduled
for 27-30 August; agree only to meet again on
10 August.
South Korea submits membership application
to United Nations Comn_&tee_on_Admission_of
New Members.
South Korean student Pak Song-hui,
representing South Korean dissident
organization, arrives in Pyongyang to
participate in the North's reunification march
and 15 August events. A second student loins
her on 10 August.
6 August 1991
UN Committee on Admission of New Members
meets and formally recommends favorable
action on applications of North and South
Korea.
8 August 1991
United Nations Security Council unanimously
approves resolution recommending UN
membership for North and South Korea.
10 August 1991
North and South Korean officials meet at
P'anmunjom for working level discussions
prior to fourth round of Prime Ministerial
talks; agree only to meet again on 16 August
12 August 1991
North Korea's Olympic Committee Chairman
Kim Yu-sun postpones sports talks--set to
resume on 17 August�citing defection of judo
athlete at an international ludo tournamentir
Spain.
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16 August 1991
North and South Korea working-level officials
hold third session of preliminary talks to
discuss agenda for fourth round of Prime
Ministerial talks. The two sides agree on little
except to meet again but do not set a date
19 August 1991
North Korean official proposes 27 August for
next working-level discussions concerning
fourth round of Prime Ministerial talks and
suggests the full-dress talks be moved from
Pyongyang to P'anmunjom. North Korea
blames outbreak of cholera in the South to
justify change of venuel
21 August 1991
North-South working-level contacts at
P'anmunjom again fail to reach agreement.
stumbling over the North's insistence that the
Prime Ministers meet in P'anmuniom instead
of P'yongyang.
23 August 1991
At fourth contact of liaison officials, North and
South Korea agree to postpone fourth round
of Prime Ministerial talks until 22-25 October
in P'yongyang.
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19-21 August 1991
Hardliners in Soviet Union
attempt to overthrow
President Gorbachev.
21-22 August 1991
North Korea and Japan hold
talks in Beging on opening
direct air links but fail to
reach agreement or
schedule future sessions.
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24 August 1991
Following funeral of three
young men killed during a
Soviet coup attempt,
President Gorbachev resigns
as General Secretary and
urges the Communist Partu
to disband.
26 August 1991
North Korean Foreign Ministry statement
proposes three-way talks with South Korea
and United States to discuss denuclearization
of Korean Peninsula.
27 August -2 September
1991
North Korea and Japan hold
fourth round of talks airnd
at normalizing relations.
5 September 1991
Seoul reverses itself on student contacts and
approves talks on sisterhood ties and
exchange tours.
7-12 September 1991
Pyongyang hosts Seventh Asian Ministerial
Conference of Group of 77 (G-77); South
Korea attends, becoming first official South
Korean delegation to attend an internation
conference in the North.al
11 September 1991
IAEA Board of Governors
approves draft of nuclear
safeguards agreement
between North Korea and
IAEA.
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17 September 1991
Brief P'yongyang domestic radio message
announces North Korea's admission to the
United Nations: omits South Korea's
simultaneous entry.
North-South student talks--scheduled to
begin today--fail to open after Seoul denies
South students permission to attend,
objecting to political nature of the university
festival.
24 September 1991
North and South students agree 120 South
Korean students and academics will visit
North Korea's Kim 11-song University- on 8-15
October, and students from the North will
visit South Korea's Konguk University in
November.
24 September 1991
South Korean President Roh announces
willingness to discuss conventional forces
reductions with North Korea,
25 September 1991
Seoul conditions South Korean students' visit
to North Korea on removal of political
elements from agreement signed on 24
September, saying the political clauses violate
stated purpose of the contact.
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12 September 1991
IAEA adopts resolution
demanding Pyongyang
ratify safeguards and open
its facilities to IAEA
Inspection. Pyongyang
rejects resolution urging
compliance with IAEA
inspection standards, citing
nuclear threat from United
States and claiming
international interference in
North Korea's sovereiantu.
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27 September - 8 October 1991
Premier Yon Hyong-muk and Foreign Minister
Kim Yong-nam head delegation to New York to
attend 46th session of United Nations General
Assembly. Yon's address to the General
Assembly reiterates perennial North Korean
positions and limited optimism over President
Bush's nuclear weapons initiative, but fails to
offer timetable for implementation of
safeguards agreement.
28 September 1991
Foreign Ministry statement officially welcomes
US announcement on withdrawal of nuclear
weapons, stating that if the weapons are
(b)(3) withdrawn. "the way will be opened" to sign A
safeguards agreement.
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8 October 1991
North Korean student delegates arrive at
Panmunjom to discuss university student
exchanges but South Korea blocks South
students from attending.
14, 17 October 1991
North and South Korean liaison officials meet
at P'anmunjom to discuss arran ements for
fourth round of Pri e � "
P'yongyang.
15 October 1991
South Korean Olympic Committee urges
resumption of sports talks in November
27 September 1991
President Bush announces
United States will
unilaterally eliminate short-
range nuclear weapons from
TLS around and nnywil hnces
3-15 October 1991
Kim II-song travels to China
for talks with Chinese
Leaders and visits t
industrial facilities.
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23-25 October 1991
Pyongyang hosts fourth round of Prime
Ministerial talks; both sides agree to difft___
nonaggression and reconciliation pact.
28 October 1991
Two South Korean dissident students�in
Pyongyang since August Liberation Da
events�depart North Korea for Berlin.
30 October 1991
North Korean Olympic Committee rejects
South's offer to resume fifth round of sports
talks, demanding return of defector.
8 November 1991
South Korean President Roh declares
commitment to eliminate all nuclear and
chemical/biological weapons from the South
and calls on the North to take corresnondino
steps.
9 November 1991
North and South Korean women leaders meet
at Panmunjom; agree to hold women's
seminar in Seoul 25-30 November.
11 November 1991
First inter-Korean working-level talks to
discuss contents of joint-Korean basic accord
take place in Panmunjom.
15 November 1991
Second round of working-level talks to draw
up joint agreement meets at P'anmunjom.
19 October 1991
Washington hosts first
soccer game between
Korean and US teams.rrtth
18-20 November 1991
North Korea and Japan hold
fifth round of talks in Belling
aimed at normalizing
relations: make little
progress.
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20 November 1991
Third round of working-level talks to draw u
joint agreement meets at P'anmunjom.
25 November 1991
North Korean Foreign Ministry issues four-
point proposal for a nuclear-free Peninsula
and hints at readiness to sign an IAEA
safeguards agreement.
25-29 November 1991
North Korean women's delegation arrives in
Seoul to participate in the "Peace in Asia and
Women's Role" seminar. Delegation returns
home ahead of schedule when South Korean
officials refuse to allow them to carry out
political propaganda events.
26 November 1991
Fourth round of working-level talks to draw
up joint agreement meets at P'anmunjom
30 November - 7 December 1991
Unification Church leader Rev. Mun Son-
Myong visits North Korea: meets with Kim II-
song who expresses desire to visit the United
States if invited.
2, 5 December 1991
North and South Korean liaison officials meet
at Panmunjom to arrange itinerary for fifth
(b)(3) round of Prime Ministerial talks on 10
December.
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10-13 December 1991
Seoul hosts fifth round of Prime Ministerial
talks; North and South agree to sign
reconciliation agreement and meet again to
resolve nuclear issues.
13 December 1991
North and South Korea sign basic agreement,
entitled Agreement Concerning Reconciliation,
Nonaggression. Exchange. and Cooperation
Between the South and the North* which calls
for:
* Referred to as the Reconciliation Agreement for remainder of text.
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� Recognition of and mutual
respect for each other's political
system, suspension of slander,
noninterference in domestic
affairs, refrainment from
sabotage, and establishment of
liaison offices at P'anmunjom.
� Non-use of arms and formation of
military committee to work out
verification measures for arms
control.
� Joint efforts to promote economic,
press, and people exchanges,
reunion of separated families,
reconnection of road, air, sea, and
land routes, inter-Korean trade,
joint ventures, and establishment
of committee for economic
exchanges and cooperation.
� The agreement to be in effect
upon completing
procedures.
14 December 1991
North Korea offers
sanctuary to former East
German leader Erich
Honecker for health and
humanitarian reasons.
17-19 December 1991
US Congressman Solarz
visits Pyongyang and meets
with Kim 11-song.
18 December 1991
South Korean President Roh declifs_thel
South is free of nuclear weapons.
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26 December 1991
North and South Korean officials agree on
draft proposal at Panmunjom meeting to
denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
Pyongyang agrees to scrap nuclear
reprocessing and enrichment facilities.
Late December 1991
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visit the North illegal1aiioiLtLcaL
asylum in Germany.
31 December 1991
The two Koreas issue a joint statement that
the nonnuclear declaration will be signed by
the Prime Ministers in their respective capitals
with the signed copies exchanged at
Panmunjom on 14 and 21 January. Known
officially as the Joint Declaration for a
Nonnuclear Korean Peninsula the agreement
calls for the North and South:
� To refrain from testing,
manufacture, production,
acceptance, possession,
stockpiling, deployment, and use
of nuclear weapons.
� To use nuclear energy only for
peaceful purposes.
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24 December 1991
Kim Chong-il. Kim II-song's
son and designated
successor, is named
Supreme Commander of the
Korean People's Army at
party plenum session,
another step in the
succession process. In
same session, the Korean
Workers Party endorses the
North-South Reconcilia ion
Agreement.
26 December 1991
Pyongyang media report
resignation of Soviet
President Gorbachev and
the declaration stating the
Soviet Union ceases to exist
with the formation of the
Commonwealth of
Independent States.
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� Not to possess nuclear
reprocessing and uranium
enrichment f"acilities.
� To make inspections of objects
chosen by the other side and
mutually agreed upon through
procedures and methods defined
by the North-South Joint
Committee of Nuclear Control to
verify denuclearization of
Peninsula.
� Shall form and operate the
Committee within one month
after the publication of the joint
declaration in order to implement
It.
Outside the agreement. the North promises to
sign and ratify an IAEA safeguards agreement,
and the South announces suspension of
annual US-South Korean military exercise
Team Spirit.
1 January 1992
Kim ll-song's New Year address applauds
recent successes and agreements in North-
South dialogue.
3 January 1992
North Korea announces its intention to sign
and implement IAEA safeguards agreement
contingent on the United States clarifying the
absence of nuclear weapons on the Peninsula
7 January 1992
South Korea cancels US/South Korean
military exercise "Team Spirit 92."
North Korea confirms it will accept
inspections of Its nuclear facilities after
signing a safeguards agreement by the end of
January, apparently dropping the
precondition that Washington announce the
withdrawal.
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9 January 1992
North and South Korea agree in principle to
inaugurate three subcommittees on political
affairs, military affairs, and economic
exchanges and cooperation in
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naccorodreanemce
with 13 December Reconciliation
11 January 1992
South Korean government
announces plans to increase ,
inter-Korean cooperation
fund to $132 million.
14 January 1992
North and South Prime Ministers exchange
signed copies of the Joint Declaration for a
Nonnuclear Korean Peninsula for ensionind
15 - 26 January 1991
South Korea's Daewoo Chairman visits North
Korea: meets with Kim II-song who expresses
willingness to meet with President Rola.
Daewoo strikes $80 million joint venture deal
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special economic zone designated for South
Korean businesses.
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20 January 1992
South Korean trade and
industry officials report
trade between the Koreas
totaled $192.17 million in
1991, an e h.t-fold increase
over 1990.
21 January 1992
Working-level officials at Panmunjom re-
exchange the Denuclearization dornmpnts
22 January 1992
North Korean and US
officials meet in New York
or first-ever hiah-level
discussions.
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23 January 1992
North and South Korean working-level
delegates hold discussions on forming three
subcommittees�political, military, and
exchange and cooperation--when the
Reconciliation Agreement takes effect on 19
February.
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North Korea and Japan
successfully conclude
negotiations in Belling to
increase charter flights
between the two countries to
80 flights per year.
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29 January 1992
North and South Korean working-level
delegates due to meet at Panmunjom to
continue discussions on subcommittees and
establishment of a joint North-South liaison
office at Panmunjom.
19 February 1992
Denuclearization Declaration and
(b)(3) Reconciliation Agreement take effect.
20
30 January 1992
North Korea scheduled to
sign IAEA safeguards
agreement in Vienna.
Austria, according to
announcement by North
Korean Ambassador to
Austria,
30-31 January 1992
Sixth round of Japan-North
Korea normalizatio
scheduled in Be"
16 February 1992
Kim Chong-il's 50th
birthday; additional signs
the succession is movin
forward may emerge
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15 April 1992
Kim II-sona's 80th birthdau
25 April 1992
Armed Forces Day--60th
anniversary offoundinri
Korean Peoples Army.
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