The Big Picture: Grim faces

South Korean activists holding up anti-Kim Jong-il banners

Conservative South Korean activists hold banners showing pictures of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il during a rally against the North's recent rocket tests in Seoul. The secretive state has ordered UN nuclear inspectors to leave the country.

Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP


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