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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is displayed during an anti-North Korea rally marking the second anniversary of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's death in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea is continuing an escalating rhetorical battle on the Korean Peninsula, with an official saying rival North Korea "must disappear soon." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
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FILE - In this Friday, April 25, 2014 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye listen to a reporter's question during a joint news conference at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said Monday, May 12, 2014, that North Korea isn't a real country and exists for the benefit of only one person, a reference to dictator Kim Jong Un. He says the North has no human rights or public freedoms. The comments followed a series of sexist and racist slurs by North Korea against the leaders of South Korea and the United States. Pyongyang's state media likened Park to an "old prostitute" and Obama to a "monkey" in recent dispatches. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)
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FILE - In this April 6, 2014 file photo, an unmanned drone lies on a mountain in Samcheok, South Korea. On Thursday, May 8, Seoul's Defense Ministry announced that a joint investigation by South Korea and the U.S. concluded three drones found in the South in March and April were flown by North Korea on military surveillance missions. A ministry statement called the drone flights a military provocation and said that South Korea will strongly react to it. North Korea has denied it sent such drones, accusing South Korea of plotting another fabrication that shows its confrontational stance on the North. (AP Photo/Yonhap, File) KOREA OUT
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Kim Jong-seong, the director of the unmanned aerial vehicle development program at the state-run Agency for Defense Development, speaks the outcome of a government investigation into unmanned drones recently found near the inter-Korean border areas during a news conference at the ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Seoul's Defense Ministry announced Thursday that a joint investigation by South Korea and the U.S. concluded three drones found in the South in March and April were flown by North Korea on military surveillance missions. A ministry statement called the drone flights a military provocation and said that South Korea will strongly react to it. North Korea has denied it sent such drones, accusing South Korea of plotting another fabrication that shows its confrontational stance on the North. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. Pool)
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South Korean Defense Ministry spokesperson Kim Min-seok speaks about the outcome of a government investigation into unmanned drones recently found near the inter-Korean border areas, during a news conference at the ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Seoul's Defense Ministry announced Thursday that a joint investigation by South Korea and the U.S. concluded three drones found in the South in March and April were flown by North Korea on military surveillance missions. A ministry statement called the drone flights a military provocation and said that South Korea will strongly react to it. North Korea has denied it sent such drones, accusing South Korea of plotting another fabrication that shows its confrontational stance on the North. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. Pool)
