According to the latest Gallup poll, the DPK has risen in popularity while the PPP has slide by five points:

The support rating for the ruling People Power Party fell as the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea regained its lead in terms of party affiliation, with the president’s impeachment trial poised to end Tuesday, a poll showed Friday.

According to Gallup Korea’s poll of 1,002 potential South Korean voters conducted in the third week of February, those who identified as supporters of the ruling party amounted to 34 percent, down 5 percentage points from a week prior.

With declining support, the ruling party — whose lawmakers have en masse protested President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial procedures — conceded the lead it had held in the previous poll. Those who responded in support of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea rose 2 percentage points to 40 percent. The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, putting their numbers just within the margin at opposite extremes.

Korea Herald

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I wonder if these kids will get suspended for ditching classes or is the school supporting this?:

More than 100 high school students — the children of Navy parents and Defense Department employees — staged a half-hour walkout Friday morning to protest Pentagon policies targeting diversity programs. About 150 students at Nile C. Kinnick High School on Yokosuka, the headquarters of the U.S. 7th Fleet, circled the school courtyard, chanting and carrying banners.

“I love this school; I think one of its greatest strengths is its diversity,” said senior Chase Hassell, president of the student council. “I think we have such a great multicultural community, and I think that it’s important for the development of all children — not just us — to have experiences with different people of different beliefs and backgrounds,” Hassell told Stars and Stripes after the demonstration.

The protest pushed back on a Jan. 27 executive order by President Donald Trump ending diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs created under previous administrations.

Stars & Stripes

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The only strategic assets the North Koreans have is ICBMs and nuclear weapons. So if they are going to respond it will be with a ICBM test or a nuclear test:

North Korea warned Saturday it will mobilize “strategic means” against what it called strategic threats from the United States and other adversaries, in response to a joint military exercise between South Korea and the U.S. involving a U.S. strategic bomber.

The chief of the press office at North Korea’s defense ministry issued a statement after Seoul and Washington staged combined air drills, involving at least one B-1B bomber, on Thursday for the first time since the launch of the Trump administration.

“The DPRK will counter the strategic threat of the U.S. and other enemies with strategic means and continue its responsible military activities to control and manage the unstable security environment on the Korean Peninsula with powerful deterrence,” the official was quoted as saying by the Korean Central News Agency.

Yonhap

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Japanese simps are in mourning.

Ukrainian influencer that came to Japan three years ago on a refugee visa quickly gained popularity among Japanese simps for being cute and having the Japanese ability of a toddler.

The same girl has now revealed that she has acquired a Japanese… https://t.co/PBHJSFW38F

— Callisto Roll (@callistoroll) February 19, 2025

This would be a big change to military culture if family days are eliminated:

The Air Force is scrutinizing the extra day given to troops that turn federal holidays into four-day weekends as the U.S. government hunts for ways to streamline operations. At many bases, service members receive an automatic “family day,” typically scheduled alongside a Friday or Monday holiday. In the coming weeks, the Air Force “will evaluate Family Days to ensure they align with our ability to support warfighter readiness,” Gwendolyn DeFilippi, acting assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs, wrote in a Feb. 11 memo.

The review comes as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, drives cost-cutting and efficiency measures across the executive branch of the federal government.

Stars & Stripes

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Here is the latest update from the ongoing impeachment trial:

Impeached Prime Minister Han Duck-soo told the Constitutional Court that Cabinet ministers were concerned about President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law bid and attempted to dissuade him before he announced it on Dec. 3. 

Han, who was impeached on Dec. 14 over his alleged role in Yoon’s botched martial law bid, made the remarks as he attended what is likely the last hearing of Yoon’s impeachment trial Thursday.

“As I recall, all (Cabinet members) were concerned and tried to dissuade him,” Han said, referring to a hastily arranged meeting of some Cabinet ministers shortly before Yoon’s surprise imposition of martial law. 

When asked about former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun’s testimony that some members were in favor of Yoon’s plan, Han replied, “From what I recall, that was not the case at all.”

Yonhap

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