For NK leader’s visitProgressive activists exhibit postcards welcoming North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s rumored visit to Seoul for summit talks at Seoul Square on Dec. 7, 2018. (Yonhap)
Xmas tree at presidential officePresident Moon Jae-in and his wife, Kim Jung-sook, pose in front of a Christmas tree set up at the presidential office in Seoul on Dec. 7, 2018. (Yonhap)
Constantinople archbishop visits SeoulBartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, speaks during a news conference on the 50th anniversary of the completion of Saint Nicholas Cathedral at the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea in Seoul on Dec. 4, 2018. He visited Seoul to mark the anniversary. (Yonhap)
UAE defense chief in SeoulSouth Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo (R) and his visiting UAE counterpart, Mohammed Ahmed Al Bowardi (L), enter the defense ministry building in Seoul for talks on Dec. 5, 2018. (Yonhap)
NK leader visits shoe factoryThis combined image, carried by North Korea’s main daily Rodong Sinmun on Dec. 3, 2018, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visiting a shoe factory in the eastern port of Wonsan. As is customary, the paper didn’t provide the date of his visit. (Yonhap)
Moon in New ZealandSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in rubs noses with a Maori dance performer during a welcome ceremony at the official residence of Governor-General Patsy Reddy in Auckland on Dec. 3, 2018. He arrived the previous day for a three-day state visit to New Zealand. (Yonhap)
Photo exhibition on Kim Il-sung’s visit to VietnamRi Su-yong (C), vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, visits a photo exhibition at the Vietnamese Embassy in Pyongyang on Nov. 29, 2018, to mark the 60th anniversary of a visit to Vietnam by state founder Kim Il-sung, in this photo released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency. (Yonhap)
Rescue effortRescue boats and a helicopter search the Han River after a firefighting chopper crashed into the river near eastern Seoul on Dec. 1, 2018. The authorities later rescued three people, one of whom was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital after a cardiac arrest. (Yonhap)
released after top court rulingConscientious objectors are greeted by family members after being released on parole from a detention house in Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Nov. 30, 2018. Fifty-eight people who were jailed for refusing to serve through the country’s military draft were freed on the day following the Supreme Court’s Nov. 1 ruling that religious and conscientious beliefs are valid reasons for refusing to serve. (Yonhap)
released after top court ruling