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FILE - This Aug. 29, 2017, file photo provided by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

EXPLAINER: What N Korean missile tests mean for US relations

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

A photo showing North Korea's missile launch is displayed at the Unification Observation Post in Paju, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. North Korea fired short-range missiles this past weekend, just days after the sister of Kim Jong Un threatened the United States and South Korea for holding joint military exercises. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea test-fires ballistic missiles in message to US

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Envoy protests mandated virus tests for foreigners in Seoul

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

EXPLAINER: NKorea’s anger to US may actually be an overture

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, talks with Scott Pleus, Deputy Commander of the United States Forces Korea on his arrival at Osan Air Base Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. After Tokyo, President Joe Biden’s top diplomat and defense chief are traveling to South Korea after North Korea made sure it had their attention by warning the United States to refrain from causing trouble amid deadlocked nuclear negotiations.(Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP)

Top US officials weigh North Korea options in talks in Seoul

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a workshop of chief secretaries of city and county committees of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea rejects Biden outreach, cites hostility

Associated Press

In this photo released by Government Spokesman Office, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, front left, receives a shot of the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine at government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Government Spokesman Office via AP)

Thai PM gets AstraZeneca jab, 1 Asian country suspends

By PATRICK QUINN - Associated Press

In this March 2, 2019, file photo, Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)

North criticizes US-South Korean drills before allies meet

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

S. Korean court upholds acquittal in abusive facility case

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

North Korean defector Choi Bok-hwa wipes her tears from her cheek during an interview in Ansan, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. For the first time in years, Choi didn’t get her annual birthday call from her mother in North Korea. Choi believes the silence is linked to the pandemic, which led North Korea to shut its borders tighter than ever and impose some of the world’s toughest restrictions on movement. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

N Korean defectors struggle to send money home amid pandemic

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE- Han Yeri, back row from left, Steven Yeun, director Lee Isaac Chung, and foreground from left, Yuh Jung Youn, Alan Kim, and Noel Cho pose for a portrait to promote the film &quot;Minari&quot; during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Jan. 27, 2020. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP, File)

‘Minari’ actor is nonchalant about new fame outside S. Korea

By JUWON PARK - Associated Press

In this photo taken during a four-day meeting held from Feb. 8, 2021 until Feb. 11, 2021 and provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends at a meeting of Central Committee of Worker’s Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korean. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

U.S. to consult allies on North Korean problem

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during an event with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to mark International Women's Day, Monday, March 8, 2021, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin to take joint trip to Japan and South Korea to rally allies

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 25, 2021, photo, high school students hold up banners to protest a recent academic paper by Harvard University professor J. Mark Ramseyer, behind statues symbolizing wartime sex slaves in Seoul, South Korea. The signs read: &quot;J. Mark Ramseyer, are you a 21st century professor at Harvard? Are you a university professor in the Japanese Empire 100 years ago? We criticize anti-human rights research.&quot; (Lee Jung-hoon/Yonhap via AP)

Harvard professor ignites uproar over ‘comfort women’ claims

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

A migrant worker works inside a greenhouse at a farm in Pocheon, South Korea on Feb. 8, 2021. Activists and workers say migrant workers in Pocheon work 10 to 15 hours a day, with only two Saturdays off per month. They earn around $1,300-1,600 per month, well below the legal minimum wage their contracts are supposed to ensure. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Migrant workers face dire conditions at South Korean farms

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2020 file photo, South Korean army Sergeant Byun Hui-su speaks during a press conference at the Center for Military Human Right Korea in Seoul, South Korea. Byun, South Korea's first known transgender soldier, who protested the military's decision last year to discharge her for undergoing gender reassignment surgery was found dead at her home on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

South Korea’s first known transgender soldier found dead

Associated Press

File---File photo taken Nov.20, 2020 members of South Korean K-pop band BTS pose for photographers during a press conference to introduce their new album &quot;BE&quot; in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-Man, file)

German radio station apologizes for comment on K-pop’s BTS

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

A container containing AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccines is transported at a distribution center in Icheon, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. South Korea's top infectious disease expert has warned that vaccines will not end the coronavirus pandemic quickly as the country prepared to give its first vaccinations this week. (Yonhap via AP)

South Korea starts vaccinating, but people over 65 must wait

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Shimane Gov. Tatsuya Maruyama, center, delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated &quot;Takeshima Day&quot; in Matsue, Shimane prefecture, western Japan, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Japan renewed its claim on a contested island in the Sea of Japan held by South Korea at the annual event Monday, escalating tensions between the neighbors were already strained over Seoul's compensation claim over Tokyo's World War II atrocities. The island is called &quot;Takeshima&quot; in Japan and &quot;Dokdo&quot; in South Korea. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan renews claim on South Korea-held island

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov, 3. 2017, file photo, women make kimchi, a traditional fermented South Korean pungent vegetable dish, to donate to needy neighbors in preparation for the winter season during Kimchi Festival at Seoul City Hall Plaza in Seoul, South Korea. Spicy, pungent kimchi; thick fermented soups filled with meat so tender it falls off the bone; barbecued everything; all of it washed down with ubiquitous soju liquor. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

South Korea takes kimchi war to new level

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times