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.

North Korea said on Saturday it had discovered the remains of a crashed South Korean military drone, suggesting it was on a propaganda mission in the latest confrontation between the two involving cross-border flying objects.

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.