The U.S. has around 28,500 soldiers stationed in South Korea. A report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shared with Newsweek this week found that over half of Americans (51 percent) back using American forces troops to defend South Korea if North Korea invaded.

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea confirmed Thursday that its recently revised constitution defines South Korea as “a hostile state" for the first time, two days after it blew up front-line road and rail links that once connected the country with the South.

South Korean intelligence has found that North Korea has dispatched 12,000 troops including special operation forces to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, news reports said Friday, a development that could bring a third country into the war and intensify a standoff between North Korea and the West.