4/8/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. Xi Switches to Fight Mode as Trump Trade Deal Looks Unlikely
2. Trump Turns Screws on China, Leaves Door Open to Deals With Other Countries
3. U.S. and Iran to Hold High-Stakes Nuclear Talks
4. Lutnick’s Strategy Flummoxes Business Leaders and White House Aides
5. Global Leaders Rush to Woo Trump, Hoping to Sway Him on Tariffs
6. Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat
7. Defense Spending Cuts and Strategy Shifts Could Lead to Major U.S. Army Downsizing
8. In a Strongman State, a Trump Order Extinguishes Flickers of Freedom
9. Foreign journalists at US-backed media fear being sent to repressive homelands after Trump’s cuts
10. Trump administration appoints junior officer to oversee US Foreign Service, sources say
11. After a backlash, National Park Service restores old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman
12. Navy SEAL. Harvard Doctor. NASA Astronaut. Don’t Tell Mom About This Overachiever.
13. Trump, Hegseth Tout $1 Trillion US Defense Budget
14. A Bodyguard of Lies
15. ‘The Determined Spy’ Review: The Cold War Was His Playground
16. JFK Files: Revelations from the Covert Operations High Command
17. Taiwan lines up sweeteners for US after Trump tariff blow. But how far will they go?
18. How this special operations leader ended up shuttering a US embassy and destroying sensitive materials just before Russia invaded Ukraine
19. Top US admiral at NATO removed amid Trump’s growing military firings
20. How the CIA smuggled Orwell and Le Carré into the eastern bloc
21. Russia’s army is being subordinated to its security services
22. Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies
23. How China Will Informationally Throw U.S. to the Mat
24. I Loved Being a Soldier by Gen. Charles Jacoby
25. Putin’s Spies for Hire: What the U.K.’s Biggest Espionage Trial Revealed about Kremlin Tactics in Wartime Europe
26. The New US Tariffs Are a Wake-Up Call For ASEAN
27. A retired Green Beret in Congress wants to ban GNC stores from military bases
28. How Trump Could Dethrone the Dollar
29. The Dangerous New Civil-Military Bargain
30. Pentagon considering proposal to cut thousands of troops from Europe, officials say
Korean News Content:
1. South Korea’s Martial Law Peripeteia
2. How the few freedoms North Koreans enjoyed have vanished since the pandemic
3. North Korean soldiers cross tense DMZ border, South Korea fires warning shots
4. Chinese teen who filmed Korean fighters says father is public security officer
5. DP leader Lee expected to step down from party chairmanship Wednesday
6. Top US, South Korean shipbuilders partner to bolster vessel production
7. ＜Inside N. Korea＞Even Housewives Being Mobilized – New “Women’s League Shock Brigades” for Farm Labor as Kim Jong-Un Regime Demands Farms Cover Labor Costs
8. “North Korea Possible Expansion of Deployment of Russian Troops”
9. How Kim is grooming kids as young as 5 to be world’s best hackers & target West
10. ＜North Korea Special＞What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un’s Agricultural Policy Reform? (2) Enterprise-Style Farms Codified in Law – Has ‘Juche Farming’ Been Abandoned?
11. Editorial: Caught between blame and power, neither party is governing
12. Acting president appoints 9th justice to Constitutional Court, names successors to retiring judges
13. S. Korea voices ‘strong’ protest against Japan’s renewed territorial claim to Dokdo
14. S Korea on edge as US hints at redeploying troops
15. Samjiyon’s dark side: Forced relocations and deaths in Kim’s showcase city
16. N. Korea officially bans American cultural icons: Cigarettes, Coca-Cola, and denim
17. North Korea orders political lectures to combat rising military desertions
18. Class divisions: N. Korean parents reject impoverished teachers for their children
19. Balancing Act: South Korea, The UNC, And The Growing Taiwan Crisis
20. Gov’t formally sets presidential election for June 3
