The 71-year military alliance between South Korea and the United States won’t be affected by the political turmoil in Seoul even if President Yoon Suk Yeol is impeached this weekend, according to experts.

Nearly 80% of respondents in a recent poll said they agreed with impeaching South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol while 20% said they were against removing him from office.

North Korea’s state-run news agency has criticized the establishment of a new U.S. Space Force command in Japan as part of Washington’s broader plan to seek “regional hegemony.”

The South Korean commander whose special forces unit stormed the National Assembly building last week during an aborted attempt to impose martial law has urged the public to blame him, not his soldiers.

South Korea’s parliament in Seoul is scheduled to vote Saturday on whether to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Opposition to President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared to swell after his abrupt martial law decree.

President Yoon Suk Yeol’s decision marked the first time in 44 years a South Korean president declared martial law. The drama threatened a major political crisis in South Korea, where the U.S. maintains 28,500 troops, at a period of rising tension with communist North Korea.

Bomb technicians at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea began moving out of their 60-year-old quarters last month and into a new $11-million compound paid for by South Korea.

South Korea’s National Assembly has approved a new cost-sharing agreement with the United States for stationing roughly 28,500 American troops on the Korean Peninsula, clearing the way for the deal to take effect in 2026.

South Korea scrambled fighter jets Friday after six Russian and five Chinese military aircraft entered the country’s air defense identification zone over a period of several hours.