Justice Minister Park Sang-ki gives a certificate of Korean nationality to 6-year-old girl Diana, a granddaughter of the late Korean independence fighter Kim Man-Kyom (1886-1938), at the justice ministry in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, on Aug. 11, 2017. (Yonhap)
Kim Jae-rim (C), a Korean victim of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ forced labor during World War II and one of four who had filed damage suits against the Japanese company, leaves the Gwangju District Court in the namesake city, 329km south of Seoul, on Aug. 11, 2017. The court ordered the company to pay 120 million won to the 87-year-old victim. Mitsubishi is one of the leading Japanese war criminal companies involved in forced labor during the war. More than 1 million Koreans were forcibly taken to mines, ammunition factories and construction sites in Japan during the war. (Yonhap)
Actress Son Dam-bi attends the 13th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, on Aug. 10, 2017. (Yonhap)
Shown is a stamp issued by North Korea on Aug. 8, 2017, to commemorate the successful test launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile on July 4, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said. (Yonhap)
Shown is a map made by British publisher Herman Moll in 1712 that depicts waters between Korea and Japan as the “Sea of Corea.” The map was given to the Independence Hall of Korea in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, by professor Kim Nam-hoon of Kongju National University, the hall said Aug. 7, 2017. (Yonhap)
Models pose at a pool party at Paradise City, a casino and hotel complex, in Yeongjongdo, near Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Aug. 7, 2017. (Yonhap)
In this photo courtesy of the Defense Ministry, South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo, escorted by Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, who commands the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) and Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC), inspects an honor guard during his first visit to the CFC on Aug. 4, 2017. (Yonhap)
Visitors throw tomatoes at each other at the 2017 Tomato Festival in Hwacheon, 118km east of Seoul, on Aug. 4, 2017. (Yonhap)
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon (L, front) speaks at a meeting of government officials and military commanders at a government building in downtown Seoul on Aug. 2, 2017, to prepare for the upcoming annual Ulchi exercise to train for national emergency situations. (Yonhap)
A group of high school girls wears gas masks in a career exploration activity at the Korea Armed Forces Nursing Academy in Daejeon, 164 km south of Seoul, on Aug. 3, 2017. (Yonhap)
