1/14/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
01.14.2025 at 02:58pm
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National Security News Content:
1. The Axis of Totalitarianism Threatens a Disastrous World Order
2. Can Donald Trump Really End the Russia-Ukraine War?
3. Trump’s Fast-Track Ukraine Peace Plan: Why a Quick Fix May Not Last
4. Taiwan Crisis 2.0: Could China’s Coast Guard Seal the Island Off?
5. What Imperialist Game Is Donald Trump Playing with Greenland?
6. North Korean Air Defense System Revealed In Ukraine By Russian Friendly Fire Strike
7. Outgoing FBI director calls China and its cyber program the ‘defining threat of our generation’
8. New Aircraft Carrier To Be Named After Bill Clinton
9. China Officials Discuss Option of TikTok Sale to Elon Musk
10. TikTok Refugees Find an Alternative—in China
11. SECAF Kendall, looking out to 2050, predicts war winners will be combatants with the best AI
12. ‘28 Years Later’ uses the same creepy poem the military uses to scare SERE students
13. What Greenlanders might want from a deal with Trump
14. The Immigrants America Needs
15. Trends in Terrorism: What’s on the Horizon in 2025?
16. Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about commitment to his agenda
17. US agencies warn of potential New Orleans copycat attack
18. A Blueprint for Digital Transformation at the Department of Defense
19. The Long Shadow of the Ladakh Crisis
20. How Biden Failed on Human Rights
21. America’s China Strategy Is Incomplete
22. The Battle Songs that Defined the Global War on Terrorism, According to Service Members and Veterans
23. Seizing the Initiative in the Gray Zone: The Case for a US Office of Strategic Disruption
Korean News Content:
1. N. Korea fires multiple short-range ballistic missiles ahead of Trump inauguration
2. North Korea launches ‘several’ short-range missiles from weapons factory region
3. Spies, protests and Fukushima: inside North Korea’s plot to sow South Korea-Japan discord
4. South Korea unveils plans for new missile defense system to counter North Korea
5. N. Korea ranks 34th in global firepower ranking; S. Korea 5th
6. N. Korea’s space law links civilian program with defense strategy
7. North Korean Air Defense System Revealed In Ukraine By Russian Friendly Fire Strike
8. Yoon’s Downfall: What It Means for Donald Trump’s Asia Strategy
9. “North Korean troops dispatched to Ukraine were not sent as cannon fodder, but as elite troops”
10. US experts: “Aid to Ukraine and loudspeakers to North Korea are foreign exchange crimes? An idea as dangerous as martial law”
11. Leaked data spark questions on number of North Korean casualties in Ukraine fight
12. How Biden Failed on Human Rights
13. S. Korea, U.S., Japan identify N. Korea behind US$659 million crypto theft in 2024
14. S. Korea to consult with Ukraine if captured N.K. soldiers seek defection to South: Seoul
15. Parliamentary committee questions Army chief, military commanders over Yoon’s alleged insurrection
16. Human Rights Experts: “North Korean Troop Dispatch Tragedy Reveals Regime’s Severe Human Rights Suppression”
17. Trump wants to rekindle his Kim Jong-un bromance, but North Korea has other suitors now
18. [Trump’s 2nd term begins] “Increased uncertainty in the US-ROK alliance… Will demand more burden from Korea”
19. North Korean Defectors Donate Relief Supplies to LA Wildfire Victims
20. Time for North Korea policy to shift focus to freedom, human rights
