New reactor installedA ceremony to install the Shingori-5 reactor takes place at the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co.’s (KHNP) nuclear power station in Ulsan, 414 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Nov. 28, 2019, in this photo provided by the KHNP. (Yonhap)
ASEAN-ROK bilateral summitSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in (R) and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi pose for a photo prior to their talks at a hotel in Busan on Nov. 26, 2019, on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Republic of Korea (ASEAN-ROK) special summit. (Yonhap)
N.K. leader visits islet defense detachmentNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) joins a group photo session with soldiers and their families during a visit to a defense detachment on Changrin Islet near the western sea border with South Korea, in this photo taken from the website of the Korean Central News Agency on Nov. 25, 2019. The agency stopped short of reporting when he made the visit. (Yonhap)
Brunei’s SultanBrunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (L) reviews an honor guard at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, about 450 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Nov. 24, 2019. (Yonhap)
Asia’s largest global theme park This artist’s impression of the planned Hwaseong International Theme Park provided by Gyeonggi Province on Nov. 21, 2019, shows the general scale of the project. South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group, which is pushing to construct the largest theme park in Asia, held a project vision ceremony in Hwaseong, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, that was attended by representatives from regional authorities, the Korea Water Resources Corp. and the finance ministry. (Yonhap)
Candlelight vigil-GSOMIAMembers of the Seoul Gyeore Hana group hold a candlelight vigil outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul calling for the scrapping of the General Security of Military Information Agreement between South Korea and Japan on Nov. 21, 2019. Protestors called on the government to disregard outside pressure and criticized the United States for interfering in internal affairs. (Yonhap)
Opposition leader’s hunger strike Hwang Kyo-ahn (sitting), chairman of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, starts a hunger strike in front of the presidential office in Seoul on Nov. 20, 2019, in protest of the Moon Jae-in government’s “total mismanagement of state affairs.” (Yonhap)
ABB machinery in N. KoreaIn this photo, provided by the Korean Central News Agency on Nov. 19, 2019, the logo (in the red circle) of ABB Group, a Swiss-Swedish multinational corporation, is seen on equipment at a newly built fish-processing factory in the North’s eastern port of Tongchon, which North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (in white clothes) inspected. It’s unclear whether the Zurich-based company’s machinery in North Korea is in violation of U.N. Resolution 2397, adopted on Dec. 22, 2017. The resolution completely bans all U.N. member nations from exporting industrial machines to the North. (Yonhap)
Snow covered NogodanNogodan Peak in Gurye County, 390 kilometers southeast of Seoul, is covered in snow on Nov. 19, 2019, after the first snowfall this winter. Jirisan National Park service, which provided the photo, said heavy snow started falling around the mountain late the previous day. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
