12/5/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. Is World War III Already Here?
2. Americans favor more international engagement, military spending: survey
3. Could Trump’s pick for Pentagon No. 2 accelerate DOD’s hypersonic efforts?
4. Ukraine Opens Talks With Trump Team on Halting War With Russia
5. The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine: A Missed Opportunity
6. Turning West, Across the Gulf of Aden: The Houthis and al-Shabaab
7. Military Planners Fear China Threat to Undersea Cables
8. How Trump Is Rethinking Economic Power
9. Beijing Has Picked Off Taiwan’s Remaining Allies. Taiwan Is Fighting Back.
10. Syria’s Civil War Puts Israel in a Bind: ‘Devil We Know’ or Islamist Rebels
11. DOGE’s Big Ideas Include Ending Remote Work and Daylight Saving Changes
12. The Lonely “I” In DIME: How the U.S. Can Address the Information Challenge of Our Time
13. Dinesh D’Souza Says Sorry for ‘2000 Mules’
14. VFW bashes The Economist for taking ‘turkey-sized dump’ on disabled vets
15. Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the leader of Syria’s shock insurgency?
16. Romanian election unsettles NATO allies
17. Translating Ukraine Lessons for the Pacific
18. DOGE Needs to Tackle The Department of Defense’s CR Nightmare
19. East Asia Homework for the Trump Administration
20. China’s Digital Strategy: Cyber-Espionage and Biometric Surveillance in Global Technological Expansion
21. A-10s are being spotted in Syria. Here’s how they’re being used.
22. Austin endorses women in combat jobs and exhorts West Point cadets to defend the Constitution
23. Maximizing Defense Innovation While Holding the Line on Export Controls: What the Defense Sector Can Learn from Global Banks
24. NATO readies countermeasures to combat Russian, Chinese hybrid warfare, bloc chief says
25. The Berlin Wall Would Soon Tumble, Divided States Would Reunite. My Work Was Done.
26. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 4, 2024
27. Iran Update, December 4, 2024
Korean News Content:
1. Empty bowls and rising rates: North Korea’s currency chaos returns
2. [News Analysis] Political crisis: What it means for Korea-US alliance and beyond
3. Yoon Suk Yeol’s Presidency in Jeopardy
4. South Korea’s Defense Minister Steps Down Over Martial Law Decree
5. South Korean President Faces Impeachment Motion After Declaring Martial Law
6. Six Hours of Crisis: Martial Law, Democracy, and Leadership in South Korea
7. The Declaration of Martial Law in South Korea
8. Yoon to face impeachment vote Saturday as South Korean martial law crisis continues
9. Foreign ministry sends letter to reassure diplomatic missions in Seoul over martial law fallout
10. Police open investigation into treason charges against Yoon
11. Foreign ministry sends letter to reassure diplomatic missions in Seoul over martial law fallout
12. South Korean defense chief steps down after president’s martial law debacle
13. ROK army allegedly put on alert for North Korea threat before martial law order
14. How North Korea has capitalized when South’s leaders declare martial law
15. Ex-defense minister placed under travel ban amid treason charges
16. Civic groups demand Yoon step down for 2nd day over martial law declaration
17. N. Korea’s state media remains silent about martial law turmoil in S. Korea
18. N. Korea-Russia defense treaty goes into effect Dec. 4: state media
19. Unification ministry says to focus on stable management of situation with N. Korea
20. Why South Korea’s Leader, Desperate and Frustrated, Made a Fateful Decision
21. Editorial: President Yoon must answer for martial law crisis