This provided photo shows Kim Jeong-ah (L), leader of Tongil Mom, a group comprised of North Korean refugee women working to be reunited with their children, holding a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Oct. 31, 2016, to urge China not to deport North Korean defectors. (Yonhap)
U.S. Forces Korea’s top commander Vincent Brooks gives a pep talk to South Korean soldiers in Yeoju, about 100 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Nov. 2, 2016, as he visits a river-crossing drill conducted by the Army’s 8th Division. The maneuver is part of the broader Hoguk combined drill that the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force have carried out since 1996. (Yonhap)
South Korean Army tanks cross a river via a pontoon bridge in Yeoju, about 100 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Nov. 2, 2016, as part of the broader Hoguk combined drill that the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force has carried out since 1996. (Yonhap)
This aerial photo taken on Oct. 27, 2016, shows the golf course in Seongju, 290 kilometers southeast of Seoul, that will host the U.S. missile shield system THAAD, short for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense. The golf course, owned by Lotte Group, was chosen as the final host site in late September. (Yonhap)
This photo from South Korea’s Navy on Oct. 28, 2016, shows the 2,500-ton frigate Chungbuk that will be sent to the international fleet review at Auckland port in New Zealand. Twelve countries will participate in the fleet review that marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of New Zealand’s navy. (Yonhap)
Tangerine farmers on the country’s resort island of Jeju harvest the ripened fruit on Oct. 30, 2016. (Yonhap)
South Korean reporters wait for officials from government and private companies to be summoned to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in southern Seoul on Oct. 30, 2016, as the investigators said they will call in a number of figures related to the Choi Soon-sil scandal. The longtime confidante of President Park Geun-hye is suspected of peddling influence and interfering in state affairs. Choi returned to South Korea on the same day, after nearly two months of hiding in Europe. (Yonhap)
North Korea’s women’s football team is welcomed with elaborate fanfare in Pyongyang on Oct. 25, 2016, after winning the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. The North’s Korean Central News Agency, which released this photo, said they were greeted at the airport by senior officials from the government and the ruling party. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)
U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Vincent Brooks (C) offers flower at a memorial ceremony for Australian soldiers who were killed in action during the 1950-53 war during a memorial ceremony at Taepung Observatory in the South Korean border town of Yeoncheon, on Oct. 26, 2016. Australia and 15 other nations fought for South Korea against invading North Korea under the U.N. flag during the war. (Yonhap)
Members of the North’s General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea present an electric locomotive they made to mark the seventh congress of the organization on Oct. 23, 2016, in Pyongyang. The country’s key media outlet, the Korean Central News Agency, which released this photo said the workers “briskly conducted the do-good-thing movement” to make the locomotive. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)
