2/21/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. Office of Inspector General USAID Semiannual Reports to Congress
2. Endgame in Ukraine: Time for a Real Strategy
3. Greenlandic politician describes struggle to remember ‘America has good people’
4. China’s Securing, Shaping, and Exploitation of Strategic Spaces: Gray Zone Response and Counter-Shi Strategies: A Small Wars Journal Pocket Book
5. C.I.A. Plans Largest Mass Firing in Nearly 50 Years
6. Senate Republicans approve budget framework, pushing past Democratic objections after all-night vote
7. Report to Congress on U.S. Special Operations Forces
8. Trump Administration Designates Eight Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
9. U.S. Military Action in Mexico: Almost Certainly Illegal, Definitely Counterproductive
10. As Defense preps for mass firings, Hegseth says a hiring freeze and more firings are coming
11. DoD reviewing ‘non-essential’ consultancy contracts for termination
12. The Pentagon’s New Defense Budget Cuts Send Shockwaves Through Palantir’s Stock
13. The breakdown of the CIA
14. Lawmakers to DOGE: Use a scalpel, not a sledgehammer at the Pentagon
15. Trump’s Turn to Russia Spooks U.S. Allies Who Fear a Weakened NATO
16. Xi Is Trying to Secure the Devotion of China’s Military
17. SOCOM looking to acquire new drone-launched glide bombs
18. From Strategy to Action: Rethinking How the State Department Works
19. China touts ‘window for peace’ as Trump loses patience with Ukraine
20. The Cargo Cult Science Empire: American political warfare as applied soft science, and Trump’s Gorbachev moment
21. Pentagon hits pause on plan to carry out mass firings of civilian employees, officials say
Korean News Content:
1. Captured prisoners in Ukraine reveal surprising fragility of Kim’s North Korea
2. ‘Not what I expected’: Russian soldiers sent to North Korea for medical care
3. North Korean soldiers adjust tactics after reentering combat in Kursk
4. DPRK arms shipments to Russia slow in early 2025 but Feb. sees renewed activity
5. N. Korean defense chief reaffirms friendship with Russia during banquet for Russian holiday
6. JCS chief, USFK commander inspect readiness posture at truce village
7. Brutal reality of N. Korean military revealed by captured soldier
8. Hungry N. Korean border guards face violent backlash over home break-ins
9. Hostage Taking, Tactics of Terrorist Groups and Rogue States
10. Editorial: The Democratic Party’s troubling silence on North Korean prisoners of war
11. Editorial: DPK’s evidence in Yoon’s impeachment case requires rigorous examination
12. Former U.S. envoy warns Trump could sideline South Korea like Ukraine in potential talks with North
13. DP considers peaceful use of nuclear power to appeal to center-right wingers
14. South Korea’s diplomacy put to test in North Korean POW talks with Ukraine
15. Gov’t urged to force Chinese firms to operate servers in Korea
16. White House National Security Adviser: “Only President Trump Can Stand Up to Kim Jong-un”
17. Former US European Commander: “North Korean Military Lacks Battlefield Adaptability… When Conducting US-ROK Joint Training”
18. S. Korea to lead new N. Korea sanctions watchdog, replacing UN panel
