A soldier is pushed out of a trench by members of the opposing team at a guerrilla training facility in the city of Sejong, central South Korea, on Sept. 21, 2017, as they train to build their physical strength. (Yonhap)
Army chiefs of South Korea, U.S. and Japan meet on the sidelines of the Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference in Seoul on Sept. 19, 2017, in this photo from the South Korean Army. Pictured are Gen. Koji Yamazaki (L), chief of the ground staff of Japan’s Self Defense Force; South Korean Army Chief of Staff Kim Yong-woo (C); and Mark Milley, U.S. Army chief of staff. (Yonhap)
Army chiefs and senior commanders from 29 Pacific countries pose at the opening of the 10th Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference at a Seoul hotel on Sept. 18, 2017. (Yonhap)
Koo Hyun-chul, who, along with his father, was taken to Japan’s Hashima Island for forced labor at the age of nine in 1939, touches the model of a forced laborer statue displayed in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan on Sept. 18, 2017. At a news conference, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, one of the nation’s two largest umbrella unions, declared a plan to set up the statue in front of the Japanese mission next May Day. Tens of thousands of Koreans were forcibly taken to the island for coal mining during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea from 1910-1945. (Yonhap)
This photo, provided by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs on Sept. 16, 2017, shows South Korean and U.S. Korean War veterans pledging allegiance to their national flags during a ceremony in the United States to mark the 67th anniversary of the Incheon landing operation. The historic operation, led by MacArthur and code-named Operation Chromite, was staged from Sept. 15-19, 1950, and turned the tide of the war in favor of the U.N. troops by successfully cutting the North’s supply and communication lines. (Yonhap)
This photo from the city government of Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, on Sept. 13, 2017, shows a man-made island of water plants in the shape of a star. The island got its motif from a poem by writer Shin Kyung-rim, who was born in the city 147 kilometers southeast of Seoul. (Yonhap)
Members of girl group Elris form a heart during a showcase in Seoul on Sept. 13, 2017, on the release of their second mini album. (Yonhap)
A Taurus missile fired from an F-15K fighter jet hits the target during the first live-fire drill of the missile in Taean, South Chungcheong Province, on Sept. 13, 2017, in this photo from the Air Force. South Korea is deploying some 170 of these long-range air-to-surface missiles, brought in from Germany, for precision bombing of facilities in North Korea. The missile fired during the drill flew approximately 400 kilometers to reach the target, according to the Air Force. (Yonhap)
Flowers are laid at the tombs of Chinese soldiers, killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, in the city of Paju, north of Seoul, on Sept. 12, 2017. China fought on the North Korean side in the war against South Korea aided by the United States-led Allied Forces. (Yonhap)
A group of part-time teachers stages a rally in front of a government building in downtown Seoul on Sept. 9, 2017, to demand the government employ all irregular part-time teachers as regular full-time ones. (Yonhap)
