Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Mt. Kumgang to Likely Receive UNESCO Recognition

| May 28, 2025
Mount Kumgang likely to win UNESCO World Heritage status
Mount Kumgang likely to win UNESCO World Heritage status
This image, taken from footage from North Korea’s Korean Central TV on Oct. 24, 2023, shows Mount Kumgang on the North’s east coast surrounded by autumn foliage. Mount Kumgang, which has long been regarded as one of Korea’s most scenic mountains for its breathtaking beauty that changes with the seasons, is likely to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site following a four-year application process, UNESCO said on May 27, 2025. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Korean Traditional Rice Tilling

| May 22, 2025
Bull-powered rice paddy tilling
Bull-powered rice paddy tilling
A farmer drives two bulls, connected with a plow, called “gyeori” in Korean, to till a rice field during a demonstration of traditional Korean rice planting at the National Agricultural Museum in Suwon, south of Seoul, on May 21, 2025. The use of animals for farmwork is rare in South Korea, where farming machinery has almost entirely replaced animals. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Kim Jong-un Visits Mentor’s Grave

| May 20, 2025
N. Korea's Kim pays tribute to prominent military figure
N. Korea’s Kim pays tribute to prominent military figureNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un lays a flower on the grave of Hyon Cheol-hae, who is known to have played a key role in grooming him for leadership, in the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Pyongyang on May 18, 2025, to commemorate the third anniversary of Hyon’s death, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the next day. Hyon, marshal of the Korean People’s Army, died at 87 on May 19, 2022. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Korean Military Drill

| May 16, 2025
N. Korea's tactical drill demonstrations of different arms
N. Korea’s tactical drill demonstrations of different arms
A North Korean tank fires a shot during tactical drill demonstrations of different arms under the training course of the conference of training officers at a boot camp of the North Korean army’s Capital City Defence Corps on May 13, 2025, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the next day. The North’s leader Kim Jong-un watched the drill demonstrations, stressing that the most “crucial” task for the North’s armed forces is to make full preparations for war. (Yonhap)