North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (2nd from L) watches a soldier holding a 1-meter-long drone during a recent visit to an army science and technology museum, in this photo released by a North Korean TV station on July 18, 2016. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)
This photo, taken on July 19, 2016, shows a pistol and bullets that the Busan Police Agency has confiscated from a high-ranking member of a major yakuza group known as Kudo-kai. The member smuggled himself into South Korea in January 2015 before being apprehended by police on July 7. The Kudo-kai crime syndicate is based in Kitakyushu, Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture.(Yonhap)
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Jang Jun-gyu speaks during a send-off ceremony for the 11th batch of South Korean troops in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the Special Warfare Command in southern Seoul on July 19, 2016. Since 2011, the UAE has been home to some 150 troops charged with training UAE special forces and conducting joint military drills. Their unit is known as “Ahk,” an Arabic word meaning “brother.” (Yonhap)
Members of conservative youth groups stage a performance lampooning North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on a street in central Seoul on July 14, 2016, to back a recent decision to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. North Korea has warned of “physical action” against the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) aimed at countering the North’s missile threats. (Yonhap)
Mud-covered tourists pose for a photo at the Daecheon Beach Mud Plaza in Boryeong on South Korea’s west coast on July 15, 2016, as the annual Boryeong Mud Festival opened the same day for a run till July 24. Boryeong mud is rich in minerals and is known to help prevent skin aging. (Yonhap)
Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn inspects the candidate site for an advanced U.S. missile defense system in Seongju, a county about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on July 15, 2016. His visit came in the face of strong opposition from residents, who are worried about health risks from the missile system’s powerful radar and question the murkiness of the site selection. (Yonhap)
This photo, released by the Cheorwon municipal government on July 11, 2016, shows holidaymakers shooting the rapids on Hantan River in the town of Cherwon near South Korea’s central front line with North Korea. Rafting on the river has become popular as people are seeking ways to beat the summer heat. (Yonhap)
A group of residents from Goseong near South Korea’s eastern front line with North Korea rallies in front of the government complex in Seoul on July 11, 2016, to urge the government to come up with measures to support them as they have been financially hurt by the 2008 suspension of an inter-Korean tour program to Mount Kumgang on the North’s eastern coast. The tour program, in which South Koreans visited the scenic mountain resort via an overland route in the Goseong region across the Demilitarized Zone, was abruptly halted in July 2008 after a female South Korean tourist was shot to death by a North Korean soldier. (Yonhap)
Soldiers from the Army’s 17th Division show off their martial arts skills during an event in the city of Incheon, west of Seoul, on July 8, 2016, to welcome veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War. (Yonhap)
A drone demonstrates dropping lifesavers to swimmers in distress at Gyeongpodae Beach in Gangneung, about 240 kilometers northeast of Seoul, on July 8, 2016, as the beach opens to the public along with dozens of others on the east coast. (Yonhap)
