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Posted: 4/18/2013 5:29:10 AM EST
South Korean soldiers prepare 155 mm howitzers during their military exercise in the border city between two Koreas, Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 18, 2013. North Korea on Thursday demanded the withdrawal of U.N. sanctions and the end of U.S.-South Korea military drills as conditions for resuming talks meant to defuse tension on the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 5:29:10 AM EST
South Korean elementary school students play around the statues of soldiers at a monument in remembrance of the Korean War at the Korea War Memorial Museum, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 18, 2103. North Korea on Thursday demanded the withdrawal of U.N. sanctions and the end of U.S.-South Korea military drills as preconditions for the resumption of talks meant to defuse tension on the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon).
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Posted: 4/18/2013 5:00:38 AM EST
A South Korean soldier walks by products made at Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea displayed at a showroom at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 18, 2013. The South Korean entrepreneurs who invested up to 10 years and millions of dollars in the Kaesong industrial complex, a symbol of economic collaboration between the rival Koreas that is now shuttered by the North, have little more than hope to cling to as assembly lines sit idle day after day. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 5:00:38 AM EST
Visitors look at products made at Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea displayed at a showroom at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 18, 2013. The South Korean entrepreneurs who invested up to 10 years and millions of dollars in the Kaesong industrial complex, a symbol of economic collaboration between the rival Koreas that is now shuttered by the North, have little more than hope to cling to as assembly lines sit idle day after day. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 5:00:38 AM EST
Visitors look at products made at Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea displayed at the complex's showroom at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 18, 2013. The South Korean entrepreneurs who invested up to 10 years and millions of dollars in the Kaesong industrial complex, a symbol of economic collaboration between the rival Koreas that is now shuttered by the North, have little more than hope to cling to as assembly lines sit idle day after day. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 2:45:10 AM EST
South Korean protesters hold an anti-North Korea rally with a defaced image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at downtown Seoul, South Korea Thursday, April 18, 2013. North Korea would collapse without support from its economic benefactor China, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was on Asian tour last week, said Wednesday, stressing the importance of working with Beijing to address North Korean threats and its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 12:16:38 AM EST
South Korean army soldiers take part in an annual military exercise in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, in South Korea, Wednesday, April 17, 2013. North Korea said it was open to talks, but not as long as the United States is "brandishing a nuclear stick," while Washington insisted that the burden for renewed negotiations now rests with Pyongyang.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 12:16:38 AM EST
South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, in South Korea, Wednesday, April 17, 2013. North Korea said it was open to talks, but not as long as the United States is "brandishing a nuclear stick," while Washington insisted that the burden for renewed negotiations now rests with Pyongyang.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 12:16:38 AM EST
A South Korean protester burns banners with pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during an anti-North Korea protest rally in downtown Seoul, South Korea Thursday, April 18, 2013. North Korea would collapse without support from its economic benefactor China, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was on East Asian tour last week, said Wednesday, stressing the importance of working with Beijing to address North Korean threats and its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 12:16:38 AM EST
A banner with picture of North Korean leaders Kim Jong-Un is displayed by South Korean protesters during an anti-North Korea protest rally in downtown Seoul, South Korea Thursday, April 18, 2013. North Korea would collapse without support from its economic benefactor China, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was on East Asian tour last week, said Wednesday, stressing the importance of working with Beijing to address North Korean threats and its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 7:13:22 AM EST
FILE - In this Friday, April 12, 2013 file photo, North Korean commuters ride on a trolley car in Pyongyang, North Korea on Friday, April 12, 2013. Reflected in the window is a roadside propaganda banner that reads: "Let's follow the example of the space conquerors," referring to the country's rocket launch program. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Filer)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 7:13:22 AM EST
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013, an apartment block stands among the buildings in central Pyongyang, North Korea at dusk. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 4:30:28 AM EST
Ok Sung-seok (C), vice president of the Association of Companies at Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC), hugs an employee working at the KIC (Kaesong Industrial Complex) located inside the North Korean border after he returned from the KIC to the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine), in Paju, north of Seoul, April 17, 2013. An electricity cable running from South Korea over the border into North Korea is one of last lifelines for more than 200 South Korean workers at a joint industrial park that North Korea has shut down amid fears of war. REUTERS/Lim byung-sik/Yonhap
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Posted: 4/16/2013 2:26:15 PM EST
A North Korean soldier looks out of the window of a guard tower, on the banks of Yalu River, about 100 km (62 miles) from the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, April 16, 2013. North Korea issued new threats against South Korea on Tuesday, vowing "sledge-hammer blows" of retaliation if South Korea did not apologise for anti-North Korean protests the previous day when the North was celebrating the birth of its founding leader. REUTERS/Jacky Chen
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Posted: 4/16/2013 10:06:05 AM EST
FILE - In this April 15, 2013 file photo, South Korean protesters burn effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung at an anti-North Korea protest on the birthday of Kim Il Sung in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea lashed out anew Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at South Korea over the small public protest, saying it would not hold talks with its southern neighbor unless it apologized for anti-North Korean actions "big and small" and warning that it could take retaliatory measures at any time. The sign at center showing images of the Kim family reads "Throw Them Out." (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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Posted: 4/16/2013 6:33:26 AM EST
In this April 15, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed in Tokyo, April 16, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un applauds as he visits an athletics contest held by Kim Il Sung University of Politics and Kim Il Sung Military University, at a stadium in North Korea. North Korea quietly marked a second day of celebrations for its first leader's birthday and issued prickly new rhetoric Tuesday threatening retaliation for what it sees as provocations by South Korea and the United States, who have been watching closely for signs the North may go ahead with a suspected medium-range missile launch. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION
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Posted: 4/16/2013 1:08:29 AM EST
People watch TV news program showing portraits of North Korea founder late Kim Il Sung, left, and his son leader late Kim Jong Il at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Posted: 4/16/2013 1:08:29 AM EST
People watch TV news program showing North Korea founder late Kim Il Sung, left, and his son leader late Kim Jong Il, second from left, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Posted: 4/15/2013 10:16:21 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe share a few words during a photo opportunity shortly before their private bilateral meetings at Soulri Kantei in Tokyo, Japan April 15, 2013. Kerry on Sunday stressed the United States is willing to engage with North Korea as long as it takes steps to give up nuclear weapons. REUTERS/Paul J. Richards/Pool (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS)
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Posted: 4/15/2013 10:16:21 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe share a few words during a photo opportunity shortly before their private bilateral meetings at Soulri Kantei in Tokyo, Japan April 15, 2013. Kerry on Sunday stressed the United States is willing to engage with North Korea as long as it takes steps to give up nuclear weapons. REUTERS/Paul J. Richards/Pool (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS)
