South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks during the United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
South Korean activists wave banners reading "abolish concentration camps!" during a rally for North Korea's human rights in Seoul on December 9, 2011. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)
US and Korean soldiers prepare for take off during an air assault mission as part of exercise Freedom Shield 24 on March 13, 2024, at Wonju Air Base in South Korea. (US Army Photo by KPfc. Lee Hyun Bin)
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing at a railway station on January 6, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during their meeting in Amur Oblast, Russia, on September 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The flags of Russia, China, and North Korea on a viewing tower on the border between the three countries in Hunchun, China, on June 25, 2015. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
People line up to visit huge portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the 78th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on October 10, 2023. (Kim Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images)