4/1/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. What Executives Need To Know About The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment From the U.S. Intelligence Community
2. What’s in the ODNI’s Threat Report?
3. The US Is Losing the Contest to Divide the World
4. Hegseth Reassures Asian Allies in Meetings at Tokyo and the Philippines but Skips South Korea
5. In the Competition Between the U.S. and China, Partnerships Will Decide Our Future
6. Pete Hegseth says U.S. is making Japan a ‘war-fighting’ base to deter China
7. China, Japan, South Korea will jointly respond to US tariffs, Chinese state media says
8. Ghost in the Machine: Coming to Terms with the Human Core of Unmanned War
9. The Nexus of Power | Water | Data: The Foundations of American Prosperity & National Security
10. China Says It Is Aiming to Coordinate Tariff Response With Japan, South Korea
11. Trump’s Greenland Gambit
12. Trump Says He Settled on ‘Liberation Day’ Tariff Plan, but Doesn’t Reveal It
13. U.S. Sanctions Chinese Officials, Citing Repression in Hong Kong and Tibet
14. Hegseth orders review of physical standards for military combat roles
15. Every Marine a Drone Operator? New Team Aims to Compete, Set Standards for Unmanned Aircraft Warfare.
16. The Hypersonic Threat
17. China launches military drills from ‘multiple directions’ around Taiwan, testing US resolve
18. The Convergence Conundrum: Achieving Mass in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
19. The Limits of Trump’s Hardball Diplomacy
20. Five Questions For A General Podcast: General Martin Dempsey and General Walter Sharp
21. China leads relief for quake-hit Myanmar. But will civil war stymie aid efforts?
22. Local Forces and Counterinsurgency Campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq
23. What “the Global South” Really Means
24. America’s National Security Wonderland
25. Whiskey-Drinking Rocker Transforms Into West Africa’s Most Dangerous al Qaeda Leader
26. The MIT Scientist Behind the ‘Torpedo Bats’ That Are Blowing Up Baseball
27. New U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier To Be Named USS Musk
28. DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
29. Beyond his bright blue suits, Pete Hegseth’s unconventional style is ‘operator casual’
30. Project 2025: Implementing Changes to the Department of Defense
31. ‘Lives Are In Danger’ After a Trump Admin Spreadsheet Leak, Sources Say
32. Competing visions of international order – Responses to US power in a fracturing world
Korean News Content:
1. Strategic Alignment in an Era of Uncertainty: Next Steps for the US–South Korea Alliance by Patrick M. Cronin
2. In Brief: The U.S.-ROK Alliance and a Taiwan Conflict by Clint Work
3. In a Washington on edge, North Korea policymakers fear for the future
4. Hegseth Reassures Asian Allies in Meetings at Tokyo and the Philippines but Skips South Korea
5. South Korea’s Constitutional Court will rule Friday on Yoon’s impeachment
6. China Says It Is Aiming to Coordinate Tariff Response With Japan, South Korea
7. Putting the Screws on the Partnership Between North Korea and Russia
8. Five Questions For A General Podcast: General Martin Dempsey and General Walter Sharp
9. The abrupt end to 75 years of U.S. policy on South Korea?
10. north Korean Unification presentations – “Korea Dream: Pathway to Peace and Freedom”
11. [NNP 뉴포초대석] 데이빗 맥스웰에게 묻는다 “한국이 중국에 전쟁을 선포해야 할까?” [NNP Newport Invitation] Asking David Maxwell, “Should Korea declare war on China?”
12. Trump says there’s ‘communication’ with N.K. leader Kim
13. Constitutional Court to rule on Yoon’s impeachment Friday
14. Police to deploy 14,000 personnel in Seoul as court poised to rule on Yoon’s impeachment
15. Roads in central Seoul to be closed Friday as court delivers Yoon verdict
16. Russia’s party delegation arrives in N. Korea amid deepening bilateral cooperation
17. N. Korean arms factories pivot to advanced weapons under Kim’s new strategy
18. N. Korean officials show unprecedented effort during ‘Friday labor’ sessions
