The United States will seek to take action against individuals or companies linked with China's military that supported the flight of a Chinese spy balloon into the airspace of the United States last week, a senior State Department official said on Thursday. In other news, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un’s wife was spotted wearing a pendant in the shape of a ballistic missile ahead of a major military parade that is scheduled to take place in North Korea. Finally, South Africa on Thursday (February 9) declared a national "state of disaster" over the crippling power shortages in the country.