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People in Seoul, South Korea, walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear facility on Jan. 6. (Associated Press)

Seoul: North Korea has sent 1 million propaganda leaflets

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

A drone is paraded in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Associated Press/File)

South Korea fires warning shots after North Korean drone seen

By KIM Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

People in Seoul, South Korea, walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear facility on Jan. 6. (Associated Press)

South Korea resumes anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts

By Foster Klug and Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

People in Seoul, South Korea, walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear facility on Jan. 6. (Associated Press)

South Korea announces start of anti-North propaganda broadcasts

By Foster Klug and Hyung-jin - Associated Press

Some argue that Kim Jong-un's appetite for defying the international community is far greater than anything his father showed while presiding over Pyongyang's opaque dictatorship from the mid-1990s until his death in 2011. (Associated Press)

Kim Jong-un hydrogen bomb claim underscores North Korean leader’s volatility

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, June 27, 2013 file photo, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, and her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping wave during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping’s first visit to the Korean Peninsula as China’s president is to Seoul, not Pyongyang, meaning that North Korea’s best friend has snubbed it for its most bitter rival. A flurry of recent rocket and missile tests, the latest on Wednesday, has made the North’s displeasure crystal clear. (AP Photo/Wang Zhao, Pool, File) **FILE**

Inside China: Seoul seeks a border with Beijing

By Miles Yu

South Korea: VW rigged emissions in 125,000 diesel vehicles

By Youkyung Lee - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gestures as he watches a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) ** FILE **

U.S. and South Korea formulate plan to deal with North Korea’s missiles

By L. Todd Wood

South Korean bereaved family members of victims of World War II stage a rally against Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Japan, South Korea agree to work to resolve WWII sex slave issue

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean Suh Byung-gon, 82, is helped by a Red Cross official as he arrives to take part in family reunions with his North Korean family members at a hotel in Sokcho, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. About 640 other South Koreans will meet their North Korean relatives at the authoritarian country's scenic Diamond Mountain resort in a reunion program that begins Tuesday. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP)

Koreans celebrate reunions across DMZ, 1st in more than a year

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

ALEXANDRE MANSOUROV: Alternative road map to Korean reunification

By Alexandre Mansourov

South Korean President Park Geun-hye reviews the troops during a full military honors parade to welcome her, Thursday at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

Park Geun-hye of South Korea eyes alliance with U.S., China to address North Korea threat

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The Search for an Effective U.S. Strategy on North Korea

U.S. President Barack Obama listens as South Korean President Park Geun-hye speaks during a joint news conference at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 25, 2014. Obama, continuing his four-nation Asia trip which began in Japan, underscored warnings against North Korean nuclear provocations, calls to lower tensions in regional territorial disputes, and words of condolence for the ferry disaster victims and the people of South Korea. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

KATRINA LANTOS: Korea-U.S. Friendship, Partnership and Alliance

By Katrina Lantos and Gordon Flake and Greg Scarlatoiu

MATT SALMON: An Alliance that Extends to the Stars

By Rep. Matt Salmon

The search for an effective U.S. strategy on North Korea

By The Washington Times

DAVID S. MAXWELL: The Korea-U.S. alliance: Ready for the next chapter?

By David S. Maxwell

SUE MI TERRY: U.S. a Midwife to Peninsula Unification

By Sue Mi Terry

To gain stature as a "statesman" in the male-dominated South Korean political arena, President Park Geun-hye developed skills in international politics, harking back to the time when she met foreign leaders as the lady of the Blue House. As a student, she made an impression as a person of integrity and honesty who worked hard and had little patience with liars and cheaters. (Associated Press)

KONGDAN OH: Korea President Park Geun-ye: Then and Now

By Dr. Kongdan Oh

BRUCE E. BECHTOL: The North Korean Military Threat

By Bruce E. Bechtol and Jr.