North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sits on the bed during a visit to a silk factory in Pyongyang, his second public outing of the year, in this photo taken from the North’s Central TV Broadcasting Station on Jan. 8, 2017. (Yonhap)
Towed artillery guns fire as soldiers of the Army’s 23rd Infantry Division conduct a live-fire drill against a potential landing enemy along the shore in Gangneung, a coastal city in South Korea’s northeastern province of Gangwon, on Jan. 10, 2017. (Yonhap)
This photo, captured from North Korea’s Central TV Station on Jan. 8, 2017, shows a newscaster reading a warning from the North’s foreign ministry that Pyongyang may launch its long-range ballistic missile at anytime and anywhere its leaders choose. (Yonhap)
This photo taken on Jan. 6, 2017, shows mountains near the northeastern port city of Sokcho being covered with snow as the region received heavy snowfall overnight, creating postcard scenery. (Yonhap)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a newly built bag factory in Pyongyang, his first public outing of the new year, in this photo released by the North’s ruling party organ Rodong Sinmun on Jan. 5, 2017. The plant is capable of producing over 242,000 school bags and 60,000 ordinary bags a year, according to the paper. (Yonhap)
An elk dashes ahead of a car on a road in Hamyang in South Korea’s southeast province of South Gyeongsang on Jan. 5, 2017, as the amount of roadkill has been increasing, in this photo released by the Hamyang municipality. The road leads to Mount Jiri, South Korea’s second tallest mountain located in the southern region in the country. (Yonhap)
Kim Bok-dong (L), a victim of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, approaches a statue of her during the 1,264th “Wednesday rally” in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Jan. 4, 2017, a weekly protest which victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery and activists have held since 1992. (Yonhap)
This photo, taken on Jan. 3, 2017, shows an equestrian center in the northern Danish city of Aalborg, where Chung Yoo-ra practiced before her arrest two days earlier. Chung, the daughter of Choi Soon-sil who’s at the center of a corruption scandal that has led to South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment, is suspected of receiving favors from a Seoul college in the admissions process and on tests by leveraging her mother’s ties to the president. (Yonhap)
Taeyeon, a member of girl group Girls’ Generation, poses for photos at the 2016 KBS Music Festival in Seoul on Dec. 29, 2016. (Yonhap)
Kim Jae-joong, a member of boy band JYJ, salutes fans and reporters after being discharged from military service on Dec. 30, 2016, at an Army infantry division in Yongin, south of Seoul. Kim served 21 months in compulsory military duty. (Yonhap)
