Yonhap reported a poll on the 12th showing South Korea's Lee with a 35.2% approval rating, down 2.2 percentage points from the prior week and marking a second consecutive weekly decline.

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said Iran is fully prepared and that, should war resume, it will demonstrate new capabilities. He said US assets in the UAE and around the Strait of Hormuz are highly valuable but have not been placed on Iran's target list to date. He warned that renewed conflict would see many regional undersea cables, data centres, AI facilities and other sites destroyed, assets he valued at more than $2 trillion.

Ukrainian President Zelenskiy on the 11th told ABC that which leader Ukraine chooses should be decided by Ukrainian society and its people, responding to U.S. President Trump’s remark that Ukraine needs a new president. Zelenskiy said holding elections during wartime is very difficult, unsafe and would not comply with the constitution without security infrastructure to enable voting. He told Trump’s team Ukraine could hold elections if Russia agreed to a 60-day full ceasefire.