Conflict in Pictures

1, November 23, 2010 North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells at the South Korean Yeonpyeong island. It was one of the heaviest bombardments on the South since the Korean War ended in 1953.

2, North Korean soldiers stand guard on the banks of the Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong.

3, After being separated for 60 years following the North Korean War, Red Cross officials from the two Koreas exchanged lists of families to be reunited, 100 names each, at a checkpoint in the border town of Kaesong in North Korea. The reunion took place on November 1, 2010 in Mount Kumgang, North Korea.

4, In September 29, 2010, the two Koreas agree to hold military talks in the border village of Panmunjom between North and South Korea in an attempt to ease tensions between the countries.

 

5, North Korean youths and students dance to celebrate their leader Kim Jong-Il on re-electing as general secretary of the Workers’Party on September 28, 2010 in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean leader Kim has made a military general of Kim Jong-Un, his third son.

 

6, South Korean soldiers wear North Korea’s military uniforms and hold North Korea’s flags, acting as North Korean soldiers, as they take part in a re-enactment of the battle of the Korean war during a commemorative war victory event to mark the 60th anniversary of the the Korean war on September 3, 2010.

 

7, South Korean soldiers wear North Korea’s military uniforms and hold North Korea’s flags, acting as North Korean soldiers, as they take part in a re-enactment of the battle of the Korean war during a commemorative war victory event to mark the 60th anniversary of the the Korean war on September 3, 2010.

 

8, South Korea’s navy staged a major anti-submarine exercise on May 27, 2010, its first show of strength since tensions with North Korea flared over the sinking of one of Seoul’s warships.

 

9, South Koreans visit the grave of their family members who were killed in the 1950-53 Korean War.

 

11, June 19, 2012, a South Korean Air Forces’ KF-16 fighter drops bombs during a South Korea-U.S. joint military live-fire drills at Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with the North Korea. The drills were held in a show of combat readiness ahead of the 62nd anniversary of the start of the Korean War on June 25