Russian student campers in N. Korea Russian student campers, who are participating in an international children’s camp with North Korean students, ride on an attraction at an amusement park in Pyongyang on July 29, 2025, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. (Yonhap)
Tsunami not observed on S. Korea’s east coast Holidaymakers play in the sea off Gyeongpo Beach in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, northeastern South Korea, on July 30, 2025, as no tsunami warning was issued following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. (Yonhap)
Inaugural Pyongyang-Moscow direct flight A Russian delegation (rear) is welcomed by North Korean people during a ceremony at the international airport in Pyongyang on July 28, 2025, to mark the first direct flight linking Moscow to the North Korean capital, operated by Nordwind Airlines, amid a strengthening of ties between the two nations, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the next day. (Yonhap)
N.K. leader joins group photo session with soldiers North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (6th from L, 1st row) joins a photo session with a group of the North Korean Army’s officers and soldiers during an event in Pyongyang on July 26, 2025, to celebrate the 72nd anniversary the next day of the armistice that halted the 1950-53 Korean War, in this photo taken from North Korea’s official Korean Central Television on July 28. North Korea refers to the three-year conflict as the Great Fatherland Liberation War and designates the date of the armistice signing as Victory Day. (Yonhap)
Boryeong Mud Fest starts A tourist enjoys a mud slide at the Daecheon Beach Mud Plaza in Boryeong on South Korea’s western coast on July 25, 2025, after the annual Boryeong Mud Festival opened. Boryeong mud is known to be rich in minerals and to help prevent skin aging. (Yonhap)
PM attends U.N. Forces Participation Day Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (C, standing) pushes a wheelchair carrying a war veteran as he enters the ceremony marking the U.N. Forces Participation Day at KINTEX in Goyang, just northwest of Seoul, on July 27, 2025. (Yonhap)
N. Korea-Russia children’s campNorth Korean and Russian children take part in a ceremony at the Songdowon International Children’s Camp in the North’s eastern coastal city of Wonsan on July 22, 2025, to mark their entry into the camp as part of deepening their friendship, 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)
Tap water source covered with trash A massive amount of driftwood and other trash floats on Paldang Lake, a source of tap water for residents in Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province, in Hanam near Seoul on July 22, 2025, following a downpour that has hit the country. (Yonhap)
