4/2/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. Trump’s pick for Joint Chiefs chairman vows to be apolitical and addresses Signal chat
2. Trump’s Pentagon Nominee Warns Against Sharing Military Plans on Unclassified Chat Apps
3. China’s Tariff-Dodging Move to Mexico Looks Doomed
4. When Good Intentions Kill: Why the World Must Abandon Bans on Landmines and Cluster Munitions
5. Are Beijing’s hypersonic anti-ship missiles in Taiwan Strait a warning for US?
6. Taiwan’s civil defence drills go big, but is there still a sense of urgency?
7. Why China needs ‘as many friends as possible’ to prevail in US rivalry
8. Russia says it cannot accept US peace plan for Ukraine ‘in its current form’
9. The dangerous myth of U.S.-China cold war tensions
10. Philippine military chief warns troops to ‘start planning’ in event of Taiwan conflict
11. U.S. Sends Warplanes, Ships to the Middle East in Warning to Iran
12. In Denied Areas: Lessons from the British Special Operations Executive and Jedburghs
13. Understanding Hybrid Warfare in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
14. Nominee for Chairman: Military’s Top Job is Creating Peace Through Strength
15. How To Deal With “Signalgate”—a Guide to the Perplexed
16. Golden Dome: Learning From the Past To Gild the Future
17. What Europe Should, Could, and Would do in a Great Pacific War
18. Washington: Declare Success and Lead (NATO)
19. How the Biden Administration Won Tactically but Failed Strategically in the Red Sea
20. Add special operators to the Joint Simulation Environment
21. Trump is redefining, not abandoning, American soft power
22. Serious Sanctions Time for Russia
23. Valor, Virtue, and Victory: Brasidas of Sparta in the Peloponnesian War
24. Staff Rides for Battles without Battlefields, from Cyberspace to the Information Environment
25. The Pentagon’s Endangered Brain Trust – Don’t Gut the Office That Outfoxed the Soviets and Predicted China’s Rise by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr
Korean News Content:
1. New polling: Does ‘America First’ mean abandoning Taiwan and Korea?
2. By Attempting To Shift Focus to North Korea, China Looks To Woo Japan, South Korea as All Three Face American Tariff Pressures
3. This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years
4. South Korea, US should go beyond rhetoric, get real on Taiwan contingency: report
5. Top U.S. general nominee calls N. Korea ‘immediate security challenge,’ backs trilateral cooperation with Japan
6. N. Korea denounces U.S., Japan’s munitions cooperation, vows to bolster deterrence
7. Acting president calls for accepting Yoon’s impeachment verdict regardless of outcome
8. Acting police chief vows to mobilize full police powers on Yoon’s ruling day
9. U.S. Embassy advises citizens in S. Korea to avoid large gatherings ahead of Yoon’s impeachment verdict
10. Opposition-led motion to impeach finance minister reported to National Assembly
11. Yoon’s impeachment verdict: Another circus passing through Seoul
12. S. Korea seizes record 1-ton cocaine transport on foreign ship on east coast
13. Gov’t signs agreement to use 500 mln-won donation to support N. Korean defectors
14. Gov’t to stay alert, devise response strategy as U.S. reciprocal tariffs loom: finance minister
15. Nearly half of North Korean troops in Ukraine reported killed or wounded
16. Editorial: S. Korea must prepare for reality where USFK is no longer static
17. Korea baffled by US listing of defense offsets as trade barrier
18. Invisible prison: N. Korean defectors’ families face intensifying surveillance
19. North Korea’s strategic drones ‘not as advanced as US aircraft’: think tank
