4/9/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. Special Forces Established as a Basic Branch of the Army effective 9 April 1987
2. Open/Closed: To receive testimony on United States Special Operations Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2026 and the Future Years Defense Program
3. Gabbard sets up DOGE-style team to cut costs, uncover intel ‘weaponization’
4. NSA and Five Eyes Get Loomered
5. Report: Trump Planning Military Parade for U.S. Army’s 250th Anniversary
6. Judge Orders White House to Restore AP’s Access
7. U.S.-China Brawl Takes Center Stage in Global Trade War
8. Senate confirms Trump’s controversial pick for Pentagon No. 3 job
9. U.S. Commanders Worry Yemen Campaign Will Drain Arms Needed to Deter China
10. Chinese Intelligence May Be Trying to Recruit Fired U.S. Officials
11. Report: Trump Planning Military Parade for U.S. Army’s 250th Anniversary
12. 12 Questions for a Writer: Douglas Waller
13. Al Qaeda Punctures Kenya’s Dreams for an Indian Ocean Trade Hub
14. China Denies Military Involvement in Ukraine After Citizens Captured
15. An American-Made iPhone: Just Expensive or Completely Impossible?
16. Back to 13-Marine squads and a new company for infantry battalions
17. Accelerating to Where? How the U.S. Can Better Compete in the Chip War
18. Tariffs will awaken the American Dream
19. The Rise of a New Axis: Great Power Struggle and the Future of Conflict
20. How the Houthis Outsmarted Washington
21. Hunting and the enemy in Modern Counterinsurgency: Malayan developments
22. China Has Readied a Trade-War Arsenal That Takes Aim at U.S. Companies
23. Authoritarians’ Achilles’ Heel: Leveraging Space-Based Internet to Seize Competitive Initiative
24. Taiwan’s Youth Are Not Defeatist — and The Data Proves It
25. Behind the Curtain: How Trump reordered the world in 80 days
Korean News Content:
1. South Korea’s coming chaebol turn to unification
2. Trump says he had ‘great call’ with South Korean leader, suggests deal possible
3. The Battlefield Lessons North Korea Has Learned Fighting Ukraine
4. South Korea Announces Emergency Support for Auto Sector Against U.S. Tariffs
5. Unification minister visits Japan for meetings with senior officials on unification, N.K.
6. N.K. leader’s sister slams S. Korea-U.S.-Japan pledge to denuclearize North as ‘most hostile act’
7. Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs on S. Korea, other ‘worst offenders’ take effect
8. S. Korea to break ground in H1 for N. Korean human rights center in western Seoul
9. Ex-N. Korean commando dies at age 83
10. Drone-helicopter collision caused by sudden gust of wind: military
11. “Kim Yo-jong’s speech leaves open the possibility of dialogue while drawing a line on ‘denuclearization’”
12. The Rise of a New Axis: Great Power Struggle and the Future of Conflict
13. Corruption derails N. Korea’s tech military recruitment: Officials demand dollars and electronics
14. N. Korean security agents recalled after work complaints, unlikely to face punishment
15. Editorial: South Korea must modernize its spy laws before it’s too late
16. Why do conservative protesters wave American flags?
17. Kim In-su, NK-born US Special Forces commando, dies at 92
