AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from the past week in Asia

Pence visited the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea and addressed U.S. servicemen on the USS Ronald Reagan in Japan, where he warned North Korea not to test the resolve of the U.S. military, promising it would have an "overwhelming and effective" response to any use of conventional or nuclear weapons.

In other images from the Asia-Pacific region last week, North Korean schoolgirls walked along the street in Pyongyang, seemingly without a care as tensions spiked in recent weeks over North Korea's advancing nuclear technology and missile arsenal.