Shown is a file photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s younger sister, Yo-jong. She was elected as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) at the party’s central committee meeting in Pyongyang on Oct. 7, 2017. (Yonhap)
South Korean soldiers dispatched to Lebanon as U.N. peace-keeping forces hold a joint memorial service for their ancestors on the Chuseok holiday on Oct. 4, 2017, in this photo provided by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Yonhap)
Gen. Jeong Kyeong-doo (front, R), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), visits a front-line outpost near the Korean border on Sept. 30, 2017, in this photo from the JCS. Jeong made the visit as South Koreans go on their 10-day Chuseok (harvest moon) holiday. (Yonhap)
This photo, taken on Sept. 29, 2017, shows PyeongChang Olympic Stadium, the stage for the upcoming opening and closing ceremonies for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games, in PyeongChang, 180 kilometers east of Seoul. PyeongChang’s organizing committee said the 35,000-seat venue will be finished the following day, 22 months after the start of its construction. (Yonhap)
Soldiers from the Army’s Special Warfare Command show off their martial arts skills during a ceremony at the Korean Navy 2nd Fleet in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers southwest of Seoul, on Sept. 28, 2017, to celebrate the 69th Armed Forces Day. (Yonhap)
Bumper-to-bumper traffic clogs one side of a highway to the port city of Busan in Seoul’s Seocho Ward, on Sept. 29, 2017, as many holidaymakers hit the road to take advantage of up to 10 consecutive days off, including Chuseok, the Korean harvest holiday, which falls on Oct. 4 this year. (Yonhap)
Well-dressed dogs strut the catwalk during a pet fashion show at a park in the southeastern port city of Busan on Sept. 24, 2017. (Yonhap)
This photo taken on Sept. 24, 2017, shows a peak on Mount Seorak in Sokcho on South Korea’s east coast turning red. (Yonhap)
Children climb up the launcher of the surface-to-air guided missile system, Cheongung, during an event at the 18th Fighter Wing in the city of Gangneung on South Korea’s eastern coast on Sept. 21, 2017, to celebrate the first independent sortie that the Air Force made from Gangneung Air Base during the 1950-53 Korean War. (Yonhap)
