Tensions are high on the Korean Peninsula as South Korea prepares to hold live-fire military drills despite North Korea's warnings of retaliation.  Will other countries persuade South Korea to abandon the drills, and what will North Korea do if the exercises happen? Here's a look at this and some of the other stories we plan to follow this week:

Will North Korea clash with South Korea over drills?

South Korea says it expects to conduct live-fire military exercises in the Yellow Sea on Monday, and North Korea says it will launch a military strike if the drills happen. The South says there is nothing unusual about the drills, which have been executed before. But the plans come almost a month after North Korea shelled South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, killing two military personnel and two civilians in the first direct artillery assault on South Korea since the Korean War ended in 1953. The North claims it attacked because shells from South Korean military exercises that month landed in its waters, and tensions have been particularly high since. Russia and China have asked South Korea to reconsider its planned drills, but the South has said the drills will go on, weather permitting. Meanwhile, many residents of Yeonpyeong have been leaving the island, afraid of North Korea's potential response.

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