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South Korean President Yun Song Yol says he will lift a martial law order after Parliament overwhelmingly voted against it.

The declaration triggered a dramatic political standoff in the middle of the night and Seoul.

Massive crowds descended on the National Assembly building in defiance of the martial law order.

In Washington, meanwhile, the State Department says it is watching developments involving its key U.S. ally with grave concern.

Here's NPR's Jackie Northam. State Department's

spokesman, Vodan Patel, says Biden administration officials are closely monitoring the situation

in South Korea. Lawmakers there voted to rescind an emergency martial law declared earlier by

President Yun Song Yol, who had accused some opposition members of aligning with North Korea's

communist government. Patel says the U.S. didn't know in advance of Yun's announcement,

but the alliance with South Korea is ironclad.

There continues to be, in our point of view, a lot of important work that we want to continue

to do with the Republic of Korea.

Patel says the U.S. expects the situation will be resolved peacefully.

Jackie Northam, NPR News.

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, returned to Capitol Hill

today to secure Republican backing.

A reporter asked, though, former Fox News host about

women in combat after he wrote in a book that men and women should not serve together

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