An anti-war activist wears coloured glasses bearing a message that reads "Flower instead of gun" during a rally in front of the National assembly in Seoul. The rally was held to denounce a military exercise between South Korea and the US, and called for the US to start peace talks with North Korea, which celebrated the 101st anniversary of its founder's birth on Monday with no signs of tension easing on the peninsula after it rejected talks with South Korea aimed at normalising ties and re-opening a joint industrial park. - Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji