Meeting of N.K. ruling party’s secretariat North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presides over a meeting of the secretariat of the central committee of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang on June 27, 2022, in this photo captured from the North’s Central TV. (Yonhap)
First ladies of S. Korea, France meet South Korean first lady Kim Keon-hee (L) poses for a photo with French first lady Brigitte Macron during their meeting at a dinner hosted by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain at the Royal Palace of Madrid in the Spanish capital on June 28, 2022, in this photo released by the South Korean presidential office. The dinner was held to welcome leaders attending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit the following day. (Yonhap)
Korean War veterans honored by France French Ambassador to South Korea Philippe Lefort (C) shakes hands with retired Cpl. Park Moon-joon at the French ambassador’s residence in Seoul on June 27, 2022, during a ceremony to confer the Ordre National de la Legion d’honneur, the highest decoration in France, on Park and another former South Korean soldier, Ssg. Park Dong-ha (R, rear), for more than two years of their service under a French battalion during the 1950-53 Korean War. (Yonhap)
Remembering Michael Jackson A visitor takes photos at an event on Michael Jackson to remember the legendary singer’s musical legacy and personal life on the 13th anniversary of his death on June 26, 2022. (Yonhap)
N. Korea holds anti-U.S. rally North Korea holds an anti-American rally to mark the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War in front of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang, in this photo provided by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency on June 26, 2022. (Yonhap)
S. Korea, Japan to resume Gimpo-Haneda flight service Planes of Korean Air, Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways are parked at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, in this file photo dated Feb. 8, 2020. South Korea and Japan have agreed to reopen an air route between Seoul’s Gimpo and Tokyo’s Haneda airports after more than two years of suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the transport ministry said June 22, 2022. (Yonhap)
S. Korea reports 1st two suspected cases of monkeypox A passenger arriving from overseas enters the arrival lobby of Terminal 1 at Incheon airport, west of Seoul, on June 22, 2022, as health authorities reported two patients, who recently arrived in the country, are suspected to have been infected with monkeypox. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said diagnostic tests are being conducted on the two probable cases. (Yonhap)
Objection to providing weapons to Ukraine Protestors from civic bodies stage a rally near the presidential office in Seoul on June 21, 2022, to call for South Korea not to provide weapons to Ukraine and to give humanitarian aid to the East European country amid the protracted Russia-Ukraine war. (Yonhap)
Canadian veteran to be laid to rest in Busan cemetery This undated photo, provided by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, shows John Robert Cormier, a late Canadian veteran of the 1950-53 Korean War. His remains are set to be laid to rest at the U.N. Memorial Cemetery in the southeastern port city of Busan on June 21, 2022. (Yonhap)
‘Top Gun’ star in S. Korea Hollywood star actor Tom Cruise greets his fans in South Korea after arriving at Gimpo International Airport on June 17, 2022, to promote his latest action flick “Top Gun: Maverick,” a sequel to his 1986 film “Top Gun.” (Yonhap)