2/7/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. When it comes to innovation, the Pentagon could use a little DOGE
2. How an ex-State Department official fueled Elon Musk’s attack on USAID
3. USAID Under the Trump Administration
4. What is NED? Elon Musk takes aim at agency founded by Reagan administration
5. Did Reagan’s Ideas Matter? (Book review)
6. It Didn’t Take Long – AI Leveraged to Support for State Interests
7. Resistance Lessons from Myanmar
8. US Marine, 3 contractors killed in Philippines plane crash
9. Philippines Says 135 Chinese Boats ‘Swarming’ Reef off Its Coast
10. What to Know About USAID, the Agency Elon Musk Wants Dead
11. Politico Draws DOGE’s Ire, Signaling a Shakeout for Media with Major Government Customers
12. China and Taiwan: Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences
13. Musk’s DOGE agents access sensitive personnel data, alarming security officials
14. It’s Russian Men Against Ukrainian Machines on the Battlefields in Ukraine
15. AI-Native Companies Are Growing Fast and Doing Things Differently
16. It’s Time to Overhaul Information Transfer in Army Training
17. What Google’s return to defense AI mean
18. Trump must keep arming Ukraine if he wants a good peace deal
19. Rolling Back Naval Forward Presence Will Strengthen American Deterrence
20. I Read Your Article (How the LTG (R) James M. Dubik Writing Fellows Program Transformed My View on Writing in the Profession of A)
21. Reconnaissance and Transformation in Large-Scale Combat Operations: Lessons from the Light Brigade Combat Team
22. Special Operations Memorial at MacDill Air Force Base Vandalized with Spray Paint
23. Does DOGE Pose a National Security Risk?
24. A Paradigm Shift for the Middle East
25. Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare
26. Some military institutions are literally speechless in face of Hegseth’s DEI order
Korean News Content:
1. A general’s journey: Korean immigrant returns to peninsula to lead US soldiers
2. Experts: US withdrawal from Human Rights Council “Negative VS No Effect on North Korean Human Rights Improvement”
3. S. Korea, U.S., Japan in talks for FMs meeting this month: report
4. IMF says S. Korea’s economy rebounded in 2024 yet downside risks remain
5. China’s Xi ‘seriously’ mulling visit to S. Korea for APEC summit
6. Why does it sound so far-fetched to have a Korean president in their 40s?
7. Let’s restore democracy in Korea
8. N. Korea executes young woman in public display meant to deter rising crime
9. N. Korean leader calls regional public health modernization ‘top priority’
10. Foreign minister meets Chinese ambassador, eyes stronger cooperation
11. Arrested president blames ‘left-wing cartel’ amid impeachment push
12. Korea and Thailand’s top generals discuss military cooperation in Seoul meeting
13. Unification Ministry suspends head of defector support foundation over sexual harassment allegations
14. Senator Bill Hagerty: “US-Korea-Japan Economic Relations, Trilateral Cooperation Key”
15. What Will South Korea’s Post-Yoon Foreign Policy Look Like?
16. Editorial: Prosecutors must end excessive ‘special investigations’
17. What is the world thinking about Korea’s political crisis?
18. Beyond the Escape: North Korean refugee chooses her own path
