4/14/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News Content:

1. Top U.S. Commanders See Major Pacific Risks
2. ‘The Risk…Is Not Winning.’ (information and influence)
3. The Paradox of Liberty: Narrative Warfare and America’s Identity Crisis
4. Allies Weigh In On The Future Under Trump 2.0
5. Winning Without Fighting: How the United States Can Prevail in Irregular Warfare
6. U.S. Allies Are Sitting Out Trump’s Trade War With China
7. Meet the Russian Dubbed ‘Putin’s Brain’ Who Is Courting Trump Supporters
8. Trump Official Who Oversaw Closure of USAID Has Left State Department
9. How the U.S. Lost Its Place as the World’s Manufacturing Powerhouse
10. The Conventional Wisdom Is That China Is Beating Us. Nonsense.
11. China and America Agree: Apple Is Too Big to Fail
12. Pentagon Turns Focus to Potentially Privatizing Commissaries, Military Exchanges
13. Elon Musk, Owner of X, Complains He’s Losing ‘Propaganda War’
14. Can a trade war lead to a shooting war? Trump and Xi, take note: Yes.
15. Justice Dept. says it’s not required to bring back wrongly deported man
16. Military schools offer test case for Trump education reforms
17. ‘Extreme’ US-China decoupling could cost US$2.5 trillion in equity, bond sell-off: Goldman
18. From Thucydides to Twitter – The Urgent Need for Long-term Strategic Thinking
19. Hegseth’s Memo, What To Do Next
20. Army Enlisted Academy Bars Students from Writing About Women and Minorities
21. Leidos Black Arrow Successfully Tested from AC-130J Ghostrider Gunship
22. A Federal Critical Mineral Processing Initiative: Securing U.S. Mineral Independence from China
23. The Age of Forever Wars – Why Military Strategy No Longer Delivers Victory by Sir Lawrence D. Freedman (MUST READ)
24. The Former C.I.A. Officer Capitalizing on Europe’s Military Spending Boom
25. How Trump’s Coercion Could Backfire in Asia
26. Save the Minerva Research Initiative – Again
27. We came in believing. We left in silence.
28. US special operators are going all in on drones so that a human never has to make ‘first contact’ with the enemy

Korean News Content:

1. U.S. Allies Are Sitting Out Trump’s Trade War With China
2. How Trump’s Coercion Could Backfire in Asia
3. Choe Ryong Hae’s power network threatens Kim Jong Un’s grip in North Korea: report
4. South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense: “North Korea Maintains Strategy of Communizing South Korea”
5. Acting president says Trump apparently ordered immediate tariff negotiations with S. Korea, Japan, India
6. S. Korea, China likely to hold maritime talks this month after standoff in Yellow Sea
7. Rebellion trial opens for South Korea’s ousted president. Here’s what to know
8. Ex-President Yoon denies insurrection charges at first criminal trial
9. Acting president says to ‘fulfill final calling’ amid presidential rumors
10. Ex-Daegu Mayor Hong declares presidential bid
11. North Korea is making what could be its largest, most advanced warship ever, new satellite photos show
12. Industry minister likely to visit U.S. as early as next week for tariff negotiations
13. N. Korean smartphones add screenshot function with notable exceptions
14. Could ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’ echo Plaza Pact? South Korea watches closely
15. “If the US-North Korea talks succeed, it is possible that they will resume next year”
16. Haven for foreign spies (South Korea)
17. South Korea’s indifference obstructs North Korean refugees’ integration