12/18/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. The Crumbling Foundation of America’s Military
2. How Tucker Carlson Killed Mike Pompeo’s Hopes of Joining the Trump Administration
3. Countering China’s Maritime Narrative: The Role of Journalism in Gray Zone Conflict
4. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 17, 2024
5. Iran Update, December 17, 2024
6. U.S. Collaboration With Pacific Allies Will Deter Aggression
7. Wakeup Call: The U.S. Risks Losing Latin America to China
8. China’s Largest Naval Exercise in Decades: Why Send 90 Warships Near Taiwan?
9. Stealth and Scale: Quality, Quantity, and Modern Military Power
10. Russia Burns Faces of Dead North Korean Soldiers to Hide Losses – Zelensky
11. Army Set to Debut Master Combat Badges in Spring, Memo Says
12. The Pros and Cons of Nuclear Participation in the Pacific
13. Biden and Trump must work together to deter an attack on Taiwan
14. The Wrong Sort of Power by Sir Lawrence Freedman
15. No runways, no sorties: Chinese missiles threaten US airpower plans
16. Suit Accuses Georgetown, Penn and M.I.T. of Admissions Based on Wealth
17. Killing of Top Russian General Is a Message From Ukraine: You Aren’t Safe—Even at Home
18. Stealth and Scale: Quality, Quantity, and Modern Military Power
19. Putin’s Point of No Return
20. The Long Telegram of the 1990s: “Whose Russia Is It Anyway? Toward a Policy of Benign Respect”
21. The Bolduc Brief: The Crisis in Military Leadership – A Call for Reform in the US Armed Forces
Korean News Content:
1. Night of chaos: Inside Yoon’s Cabinet in hours before declaration
2. Indoctrinated, loyal and well trained: Don’t underestimate North Korean soldiers in Russia, experts say
3. Trump mentions Kim Jong Un while skipping over S. Korea
4. How China-North Korea relations frayed in 2024, and what it means for Trump’s Korea policy
5. Ukraine’s Security Service intercepts conversation between Russians confirming heavy North Korean losses in Kursk Oblast
6. South Korea Is in Constitutional Chaos
7. The South Korea Constitutional Crisis of 2024 Is a Myth
8. Map shows unusual US spy flights near allies
9. Yoon’s impeachment throws future of North Korean human rights policy into doubt
10. DRL Increasing Access to Information in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea)
11. Ox carts and smartphones: New video offers rare look at North Korean countryside
12. Yoon’s Political Implosion: Making Pyongyang’s Day
13. The Strange Success of North Korea
14. Acting President Han to hold extraordinary Cabinet meeting on Thursday
15. Constitutional Court orders Yoon to submit martial law decree, Cabinet meeting minutes
16. Sullivan says democratic institutions in S. Korea are ‘holding’ despite martial law attempt
17. Former, incumbent military intelligence officers planned martial law operations over burgers: police
