3/18/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. A Pentagon Nomination Fight Reveals the New Rules of Trump’s Washington
2. Ukraine Cease-Fire Hinges on Trump Call With Putin
3. At the U.S. Institute of Peace, It’s War When Musk’s Team Arrives
4. US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building
5. A Wilson Center Update (re White House Exec Order)
6. Airpower and Modern Politics: Symbolism Beyond Effectiveness
7. Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less
8. How Ukraine’s Offensive in Russia’s Kursk Region Unraveled
9. Russia’s Kursk counteroffensive and what losing Sudzha means for Ukraine
10. U.S. military has cared about climate change since dawn of Cold War — for good reason
11. What Happened to Silicon Valley’s Most Infamous Thought Criminal?
12. Trump appoints Charlie Kirk, Walt Nauta, Michael Flynn to military boards
13. Students at military bases around world resist Trump’s DEI crackdown
14. Make Advana Great Again (DOD Audits)
15. Navajo Code Talkers get “DEI” label as military info disappears under Trump order
16. A War of Chokepoints: Mavulis Island in a Future Taiwan War Scenario
17. Harriet Tubman: The Original Special Operations Pioneer
18. Veteran-Recruiting Non-Governmental Organizations: An Emerging Actor in Humanitarian Response
19. Putin Doesn’t Actually Want Peace
20. The Fragile Axis of Upheaval
21. The Once and Future Transatlantic Alliance
22. Six books you didn’t know were propaganda
23. Trump Doesn’t Faze Xi Jinping
24. Chinese media, Hun Sen celebrate White House order to close US-funded news outlets
25. Trump Endangers Asian Military Alliances – Undercutting the Quad
Korean News Content:
1. America’s Allies Are Shaken, and Now They’re Taking Action
2. North Korea makes new US military demands of Trump
3. South Korea’s Hanwha Takes Stake in Australian Shipbuilder Austal
4. North Korea rejects G7 call for denuclearization, vows to ‘strengthen’ nuclear forces
5. What to do with North Korean POWs in Ukraine? Kyiv, Seoul discuss
6. How Ukraine’s Offensive in Russia’s Kursk Region Unraveled
7. Whether Korea-Japan warming survives Seoul turmoil is up in the air
8. Chinese media, Hun Sen celebrate White House order to close US-funded news outlets
9. South Korean Government: “Strengthening Resident Control” at North Korea’s ‘National People’s Committee Meeting’
10. Salmon Report: “46% of North Koreans Estimated to be Malnourished”
11. S. Korea’s sensitive country listing ‘not a big deal,’ says acting U.S. envoy
12. (Sensitive Countries List) If this continues, it will really be ‘Korea passing’… “Political circles should refrain from immature nuclear armament theories” [view]
13. Acting president stresses need for strong joint defense posture with visit to CFC command post
14. South Korea’s ‘sensitive country’ designation linked to attempted leak of U.S. reactor design software
15. Surveillance mandate breeds discontent among N. Korean party ranks
16. Beyond denuclearization: S. Korea’s case for conditional nuclear armament
17. I moved to South Korea without knowing anyone. A family of strangers took me in, and we’re still in touch 18 years later.
