N.K. leader inspects military academy North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) meets with a cadet practicing on the parallel bars during his visit to the Kang Kon Military Academy, the country’s most prestigious commanding officers training center, in Pyongyang on Feb. 25, 2025, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the next day. (Yonhap)
Russian diplomats honor ex-Soviet war dead Officials from the Russian Embassy pay tribute to the former Soviet war dead at the cemetery for them in Pyongyang on Feb. 23, 2025, on the occasion of Russia’s Defender of the Fatherland Day, in this photo released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Feb. 24. (Yonhap)
Daegu Marathon Participants of the 2025 Daegu Marathon crowd streets of the city, 233 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Feb. 23, 2025, in this photo provided by a reader. (Yonhap)
Soldiers conduct ‘severe-cold period’ drill Soldiers of the Army’s 11th Maneuver Division conduct an artillery live-fire drill with K-2 tanks at an Army training range in Hongcheon, Gangwon Province, northeastern South Korea, on Feb. 21, 2025, as part of the unit’s tactical drill tailored for the winter’s severe cold period, in this photo released by the division. (Yonhap)
Protesting Japan’s Dokdo sovereignty claim Civic groups hold a protest in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2025, against Japan’s renewed territorial claim over Dokdo, following an annual event held in Shimane Prefecture laying claim to South Korea’s easternmost islets. (Yonhap)
Rally by Yoon supportersSupporters of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol rally near the Seoul Central District Court in the capital on Feb. 20, 2025, as Yoon will attend the first hearing of his criminal trial on insurrection charges in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law in December. (Yonhap)
Remembering victims of subway attack A bereaved family member plants an artificial flower into the ground at a public park in the southeastern city of Daegu on Feb. 18, 2025, during a memorial ceremony marking the 22nd anniversary of a 2003 arson attack at a subway station in the city in which a mentally disturbed man in his 50s started a blaze, leaving 192 passengers dead. (Yonhap)
Cadets prepare for U.S. military skills competition Cadets of the Korea Military Academy run toward an obstacle course at U.S. Army base Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, on Feb. 18, 2025, as they prepare to take part in the Sandhurst Military Skills Competition, a military skills competition at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in the state of New York, in April. (Yonhap)
Rally calling for Yoon’s impeachment People stage a rally to call for President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment by the Constitutional Court in Gangneung, about 170 kilometers east of Seoul, on Feb. 15, 2025. (Yonhap)
Acquittal of scholar on defamation charges over comfort women Lew Seok-choon, a former Yonsei University professor, speaks to reporters at the Supreme Court in Seoul on Feb. 13, 2025, after the court upheld the lower court’s acquittal of him over his alleged defamation of Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. (Yonhap)
