2/19/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. How Russians and the West Failed Navalny
2. Brave Russian Tributes for Alexei Navalny
3. Israel Sets Deadline for Rafah Ground Offensive Within Weeks
4. Aboard a U.S. Aircraft Carrier, a Front-Row Seat to China Tensions
5. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 18, 2024
6. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, February 18, 2024
7. Can Loose Lips Sink an Alliance?
8. Houthi Rebels Cry Havoc! And Let Slip the Drones of War
9. ‘There’s only Plan A’: Defense leaders fear failure in Ukraine
10. Worrywurst at the Munich Security Conference
11. The Moral Blindness of Putin’s Apologists on the Right
12. A Reconsideration of Women’s Role in Special Operations: Critical Questions, Mooted a Decade After the Fact
13. Special forces blocked UK resettlement applications from elite Afghan troops
14. Generally speaking, Don Bolduc, now a Pittsfield police officer, has tested himself for years
15. NATO Ally Pledges All Its Artillery to Ukraine in Boost for Kyiv
16. The Liberum Veto: A History and a Warning
17. US Army under increasing pressure as it foots bill for Ukraine support
Korean News Content:
1. US: Russia ties raise risk North Korea will use nuclear weapons
2. Trump’s NATO barbs spark concerns of return to ‘transactional’ alliance
3. N. Korea erases image of Korean Peninsula from major websites
4. Vacation in North Korea? Reclusive State Reopens to Tourism—But Only for Russians
5. A Fully Sovereign Seoul: The Debate Over South Korean Independent Nuclear Ambitions
6. N. Korea touts sole leadership system on key anniversary
7. S. Korea, U.S., Japan call for N. Korea to take ‘immediate’ steps to end ‘all’ human rights abuses
8. New DAPA chief vows to speed up weapons procurement process
9. Political parties in full-fledged election mode as April 10 voting nears
10. South Korea’s secretive tango with Cuba signals diplomatic shift in East Asia
11. China arrests N. Korean trade official for illegal currency transaction
12. The impact of Kim Jong Un’s order in late 2020 to “sound the guns” (about information)
13. China steps up crackdown on N. Korean defectors’ fake IDs
14. <Inside N. Korea>S.Korea is the enemy…Trends after Kim Jong Un’s “anti-unification policy” announcement