1/16/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. John Ratcliffe Is Expected to Lay Out a Vision for a More Aggressive C.I.A.
2. Assembling the A-Team: Creating an Interagency Office to Counter Irregular Warfare
3. How Months of Geopolitical Upheaval Paved Way for Gaza Cease-Fire
4. How the Biden and Trump teams worked together to get the Gaza ceasefire and hostages deal done
5. China Has a $1 Trillion Head Start in Any Tariff Fight
6. Pax Polska: Poland is Primed to Become the Backbone of Europe’s Security
7. Hamas Ceasefire Deal Means One Thing: Israel Loses
8. Marco Rubio warns China is America’s ‘biggest threat,’ affirms value of NATO alliance
9. Top Marine general says moving Marines from Okinawa to Guam ‘puts us going the wrong way’
10. Reported Trump ‘loyalty tests’ for national-security officials draw criticism
11. US Army Black Hawks to go autonomous, take-off with just a tap
12. Takeaways From Marco Rubio’s Senate Hearing
13. Biotech Battlefield: Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics
14. Rewind and Reconnoiter: Why Women Scare Autocrats
15. Could the Fall of Assad and the Return of Trump Lead to a Better Deal with Iran?
16. Poland’s leader accuses Russia of planning acts of sabotage against ‘airlines around the world’
17. Special Operations Command eyes creating new tech-based MOS
18. Researcher: Hybrid tactics likely spreading from Taiwan Strait to the Baltic Sea
19. Japan and Philippines plan to convey to Trump the need for US engagement in Asia
Korean News Content:
1. S. Korea says N. Korea can never be recognized as nuclear power after Trump nominee refers to Pyongyang as one
2. CIA director nominee calls N. Korea ‘destabilizing force’
3. Rubio says he’ll explore how to lower risks of ‘inadvertent’ inter-Korean war, keep other states from seeking nuclear arms
4. Biden administration clarifies it does not recognize North Korea as a nuclear power
5. South Korea using loudspeakers to spread news of North Korean troops captured by Ukraine
6. US experts: “Information inflow to North Korea is a legitimate security measure… Inappropriate subject of special prosecutor law”
7. Hegseth calls North Korea a nuclear power, urges allies to share defense burden
8. North Korea’s suicide soldiers pose new challenge for Ukraine in war with Russia
9. Even the ‘AI manipulation theory’… Hot interest in North Korean military prisoner video
10. Pax Polska: Poland is Primed to Become the Backbone of Europe’s Security
11. Editorial: Upholding rule of law is key to South Korea’s stability during unprecedented turmoil
12. The End of the North Korean Soldiers Brainwashed with the Suicide Spirit
