North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Beijing to attend a military parade with his Chinese and Russian counterparts
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that three Americans who had been detained in North Korea, Kim Dong Chul, Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song, are now on their way home.
Footage shows the bodyguards running in time with Kim's limousine for more than a minute before disappearing back into North Korea.
The risk of nuclear war and the threat of climate change have moved the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe to two minutes to midnight.
World leaders and social activists made the shortlist for TIME's Person of the Year. The title was awarded to The Silence Breakers that the magazine deems to have been the most influential in 2017.
North Koreans on Saturday celebrated another public holiday with familiar routines, laying flowers and bowing in front of statues and portraits of past leaders while the outside world kept a close watch amid speculations that another missile test is near.