NK Top Leader Kim Jong-un Presides Over A Security Affairs Meeting

This photo provided by KCNA on Jan. 27, 2013 shows Kim Jong Un (3rd L), top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), attends a work meeting of officials for national security and external affairs held recently on current situation. Kim Jong Un pledged to resort to “powerful physical countermeasures” in safeguarding his country’s dignity and sovereign rights. <Xinhua/KCNA>

People watch a TV screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. Kim convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take “substantial and high-profile important state measures,” state media said Sunday, indicating that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations. <AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon>