3/14/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. Secretary of Defense Directs Restructuring of the Office of Net Assessment to Align With Strategic Priorities
2. Hegseth ‘disestablishing’ Office of Net Assessment, Pentagon’s strategic analysis specialists
3. Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war
4. Putin Rejects Immediate Cease-Fire in Ukraine
5. The Ukraine Minerals Deal Is Fair
6. Taiwan Cracks Down on Chinese ‘Gray Zone’ Espionage
7. Make the U.S. Civil Service Effective Again
8. Understanding the PRC Grand Strategy AI Model: China’s Strategic Vision Decoded
9. Canada Finds Solidarity at G-7 in Push Against Trump’s 51st State Idea
10. Trump’s Ukraine Peace Strategy Put to Test After Putin Balks at Cease-Fire
11. A New Hope for Europe’s Ailing Economies: the Military
12. Belgian Authorities Arrest Suspects in Huawei, European Parliament Corruption Probe
13. Census Operations
14. The New Paradigm: How AI is Shaping Narratives and Conversation
15. Thom Shanker: Ukraine War Has Proven Drones Are the Future of Warfare
16. Ukraine’s Hidden Front: The Strategic Impact of Resistance Operations (STRONGLY RECOMMEND LISTENING TO THIS PODCAST)
17. Musk visits National Security Agency after urging ‘overhaul’ of U.S. cyberespionage hub
18. Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
19. Peace or no peace, America can and should arm Ukraine
20. Ukraine Needs US Weapons But It Needs Intelligence More
21. ‘Peace Through Strength’ Starts with Rebuilding the US Air Force
22. Getting Out of Forever Wars
23. Autonomy Has Outpaced International Space Law
24. A Better Way to Defend America
25. Misunderstanding McKinley – Why the Gilded Age Tariff Model Won’t Work for Trump
26. Actions create consequences: equanimity under stress – A letter from a veteran
Korean News Content:
1. “USFK, highly integrated with ROK military… ‘trip wire’ term inappropriate”
2. President Trump: “North Korea is a ‘nuclear state’… Will rebuild ‘good relations’ with Kim Jong-un”
3. Joint letter urging respect for the free will of North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) wishing to go to South Korea
4. Navy Supply Ship Completes First Large-Scale Maintenance at South Korean Shipyard
5. Suspected North Korean coal smuggling ship collides with Chinese ship in West Sea; 15-20 crew members dead
6. State Department: “We Will Consider Delivering Hamas-Victimized American Collection to North Korea”
7. S. Korea, U.S. stage air drills with stealth fighter jets over U.S. aircraft carrier
8. S. Korea calls for immediate release of 3 missionaries detained in N. Korea following U.N. report
9. China’s refined petroleum supply to N. Korea rises slightly last year: UNSC
10. Yoon’s supporters, opponents to hold large-scale rallies Saturday
11. North Korea disguises long-range missile base as golf course: research group
12. Assembly speaker meets ex-U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
13. North Korea and the UN Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights
14. Acting president vetoes bill on special counsel probe into Yoon over election influence-peddling
15. “Trump’s ‘North Korea is a nuclear state’ remark is an attempt to induce a return to nuclear negotiations”
16. Prisoners in N. Korean camps suffer from torture at minus 30 degrees
17. Empty promises: N. Korean schools force students to bring their own cement despite state ‘support’
18. N. Korea condemns Japan’s constitutional push, security cooperation with S. Korea, U.S.
19. Korea mobilizes country’s entire police force as tensions rise ahead of Yoon impeachment verdict
