8/6/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign
2. China takes foreign spy hostility to new levels; proactive strategy proposed for U.S.
3. Austin was ‘surprised’ by 9/11 plea deals, Pentagon says
4. Retired Army officer sues government over clerical mistake that cost him promotions, pay
5. U.S. Faces New Challenges as Potential Iran Attack on Israel Nears
6. How the U.S. and Mexico Drove Border Crossings Down in an Election Year
7. Transforming war: A strategic integration of unmanned aerial systems by Florent Groberg
8. Bloomberg News Parts Ways With Reporter Involved in Article About Evan Gershkovich’s Release
9. What Russia’s arrest footage of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan really tells us
10. Analysis: Mass arrests and conflicting narratives following the Haniyeh assassination
11. How the U.S. military cultivated — and then lost — a key African ally
12. An Army officer is one of the stars of the U.S. women’s Olympic rugby team
13. Army officer and West Point grad crowned Miss USA
14. The US Strengthens the Second Island Chain
15. Strategically important Myanmar military HQ appears to fall to the resistance, in a blow to regime
16. Watch: AC-130J gunship pummels Navy vessel during Rim of the Pacific
17. AFSOC Turns Rural Highway into Runway for Historic AC-130J Touchdown
18. How To Pose as a Reasonable Critic of Israel (With a Little Help From the Media)
19. Taiwan is making a TV show about a Chinese invasion. And it’s hitting close to home
20. Opinion Biden’s Indo-Pacific diplomacy has made America’s future more secure
21. USSOCOM hosts quarterly 1st SOF Truth day on transitioning from the military
22. China’s special forces launch spy drone that flaps wings like a real bird
23. Several US personnel injured in rocket attack on Iraq base, official says
24. The U.S. Finally Wakes Up on Venezuela
25. Medal of Honor: Hiroshi Miyamura (graphic novel)
26. How to Make Military AI Governance More Robust
27. Lessons Never Learned: The US Army Disinterest in the 1912–13 Balkan Wars and Today’s Professional Military Discourse
28. China’s Real Economic Crisis
29. ‘Land of Bad:’ JTAC and Delta Force-centered movie is worth a watch
30. From my veins to the frontlines (Ukraine)
31. Opinion | The next president must restore our faith in America by Jamie Dimon
Korean News Content:
1. Top Biden officials tout improved Seoul-Tokyo ties, cooperation against NK threats as key policy feats
2. U.S. calls on N. Korea to stop ‘unproductive’ steps after event for tactical missile launcher transfer
3. Top military officer calls for ‘stern’ action in event of N.K. provocation
4. N. Korea denounces Germany for joining U.N. Command
5. Authorities issue warning against N. Korean hackers trying to steal construction, machinery data
6. North Korean flood victims who lost their homes or families told not to show sadness
7. Cuba’s past may be with North Korea but its future is with the South
8. Kim Jong Un’s visits dictate flow of N. Korean flood aid
9. Anti-foreign spy bills floated after alleged leak of agents’ identities (South Korea)
10. Japan rejected S. Korea’s call to include term ‘forced’ in Sado mine exhibits
11. North Korean band rocks out to national anthem in unusual show for Kim Jong Un
12. North Korea set to increasingly use ‘gray zone’ tactics to challenge US: Report
13. North Korean diplomats return from Russia with luxury goods
14. Flood-destroyed bridges likely to obstruct North Korean nuke program, arms sales
15. Heir of North Korea’s tyrant faces ‘psychopath’ aunt in control fight
16. Kim Jong Un wants Trump back, elite defector tells BBC
17. Kim’s flood visit prompts scrutiny of North Korean officials’ actions