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TOPSHOT - Police stand guard in front of the main gate of the National Assembly in Seoul on December 3, 2024, after South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law. South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol on December 3 declared emergency martial law, saying the step was necessary to protect the country from "communist forces" amid parliamentary wrangling over a budget bill. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Customers inside a Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. store, with views of North Korea's Gaepung County, at the Aegibong Peace Ecopark in Gimpo, South Korea, on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. The 30-seater cafe opened Friday, offering its customers in the south a peek into the worlds most reclusive country while sipping a favorite brew.
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Starbucks opens a cafe with a view of North Korea
An official holds a tarantula that was seized from a South Korean national as he was attempting to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas and centipedes along with bullet ants out of the country at Jorge Chavez International Airport, in Lima, Peru, in this handout distributed on November 13, 2024. Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
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Kim Jong Un , general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, guided on the spot the performance test of suicide attack drones of various types produced by an affiliated institute of the Unmanned Aerial Technology Complex (UATC) and enterprises on November 14, 2024. This image was partially blurred before its release.
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