2/16/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. ‘Salute and execute’: A new generation of military veterans takes center stage as Trump remakes US foreign policy
2. Trump administration’s mixed messaging on foreign policy leaves world guessing
3. Iran’s abandoned bases in Syria: Years of military expansion lie in ruins
4. US says military exercises with Philippines ‘purely defensive’, for force readiness
5. Republicans advance plans to raise military spending by at least $100B amid concerns budget cuts could affect veterans
6. Zelensky Says Ukraine Unlikely to Survive Its War Without U.S. Support
7. (The Big Five) The Week When Decades Happened by Mick Ryan
8. All the President’s Sock Puppets (DOJ and the Southern District of New York)
9. Trump Steamrolls Critics With Flood-the-Zone Strategy
10. Black Hawk crew in DC crash may have missed key air traffic messages
11. New Sanctions for Putin’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ Are on the Horizon
12. What Gazans Want
13. Putin’s Ukraine: The End of War and the Price of Russian Occupation
14. MACV-SOG: The special operators who took on the Vietnam War’s most dangerous and secret missions
15. U.S. and Russian officials to discuss how to end Ukraine war
16. Trump’s global funding freeze leaves anti-terror programs in limbo
17. Russia’s Advance in Ukraine Is Slowing. Here’s What’s Happening and Why.
18. Trump moves with dizzying speed on his to-do list. But there are warning signs in his first month
19. US presented Ukraine with a document to access its minerals but offered almost nothing in return
20. DOGE or be DOGE’d: The Army needs to preemptively start cutting
21. The Pacific needs greater cyber resilience as malicious actors break into networks
22. 7th Special Forces Group Members Deploy to Mexico To Train Mexican Marine Infantry
23. Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
24. Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
Korean News Content:
1. FM says S. Korea has ‘no doubts’ about U.S. security commitment
2. N. Korea marks late leader’s birthday with calls for loyalty for Kim Jong-un
3. Trump’s reciprocal tariff likely to become reality in April: Uncertainty worsens situation
4. Trump tariffs loom large in South Korea’s ‘steel city’
5. S. Korea navigates uncertainty as Trump’s reciprocal tariffs reshape global trade
6. Rubio reaffirms alliance with Seoul, Pyongyang’s denuclearization in Munich
7. Rubio-Cho meeting highlights the illusion of shared interests
8. Why China’s loss could be South Korea’s gain as Southeast Asia seeks new weapons suppliers
9. Trump tariffs, martial law chaos unlikely to affect S. Korea’s credit rating: appraisers
10. ‘Comfort woman,’ activist Gil Won-ok dies at 97
11. S. Korea’s ties with Syria could drive N. Korea closer to Russia, China: experts
12. Hosting UN headquarters in South Korea
13. “The essence of North Korea-Russia ‘drone cooperation’ is North Korea’s consignment production of weapons”
14. US, South Korea, Japan reaffirm pledge to seek North Korea’s denuclearisation
15. Trump 2.0 codifies ‘complete denuclearization’ of N. Korea amid fears of US policy shift
16. Yoon’s legal battles intensify as dual hearings loom Feb. 20
17. Army deploys first Athena-R spy plane to South Korea
