Korean American writer’s novel shortlisted for 2025 Booker Prize Korean American writer Susan Choi poses for a photo during a press conference at the Korean Cultural Center in London on Nov. 9, 2025. Choi’s new novel, “Flashlight,” which tells the story of a 10-year-old girl; her father, a Korean immigrant in Japan who went missing; and her American mother, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. (Yonhap)
North Korean Defense Minister No Kwang-chol (3rd from R) holds talks with Russian Gen. Viktor Goremykin (4th from L), who has led a delegation of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, in Pyongyang on Nov. 6, 2025, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the next day. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)
Autumn leavesVisitors gather around a ginkgo tree with yellow leaves, believed to be 1,318 years old, in a village in Wonju, Gangwon Province, northeastern South Korea, on Nov. 6, 2025. The tree, which is preserved as Natural Monument No. 176, has a height of 32 meters and a maximum circumference of 16.27 meters. (Yonhap)
N. Korea’s ex-head of parliament, Kim Yong-nam, dies Kim Yong-nam, then chairman of the Standing Committee of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly, waves upon arrival at a hotel in Gangneung on South Korea’s east coast to attend a banquet dinner marking the opening of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, in this February 2018 file photo. Kim died on Nov. 3, 2025, from multiple organ failure related to cancer-linked poisoning at age 97, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported the next day. Kim, who had led Pyongyang’s diplomacy for decades, visited South Korea as head of the North’s delegation to the Olympics. (Yonhap)
U.S. defense chief visits DMZ South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back (L) and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pose for a photo during a visit to the truce village of Panmunjom between South and North Korea inside the Demilitarized Zone, which separates the two Koreas, at the western section of the inter-Korean border in Paju, north of Seoul, on Nov. 3, 2025, in this photo released by the South Korean defense ministry. (Yonhap)
NK leader inspects special operations unit North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C, in leather jacket) poses for a photo with soldiers of the 11th Corps of the Korean People’s Army during his visit to the unit on Nov. 1, 2025, in this photo published by the Korean Central News Agency on Nov. 2, 2025. (Yonhap)
S Korea-Singapore summit President Lee Jae Myung (R) shakes hands with Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong ahead of their talks in Seoul on Nov. 2, 2025. (Yonhap)
S. Korea-Japan summit talks South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (R) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of their talks in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, southeastern South Korea, on Oct. 30, 2025. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
Ahead of 3rd anniv. of Itaewon crowd crush This photo, taken Oct. 28, 2025, shows the site of the Oct. 29, 2022, crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district that claimed 159 lives during Halloween celebrations, a day ahead of the tragedy’s third anniversary. (Yonhap)
