4/23/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. China Signals Openness to U.S. Trade Talks—but Not Under Duress
2. Rand Paul Fights Trump on Tariffs as Other Republicans Duck
3. Judge halts shutdown of Voice of America
4. RFA welcomes ruling ordering disbursement of funds
5. I survived the Iran hostage crisis. People in countries like Iran desperately need the VOA
6. Command from the Commander’s Perspective: Essential Case Studies in Civ-Mil Relations
7. Rubio Abruptly Cancels London Trip, As Ukraine, Europeans, Lay Out ‘Red Lines’
8. How a Lloyd Austin aide became Pete Hegseth’s ‘only guy standing’
9. Inside the vicious rivalries tearing apart Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon
10. My Old Warship Is Caught Up in the Battle Over DEI by James Stavridis
11. Want to Understand the New Cold War? Look to Huawei.
12. Opinion: US Blind Spot in the Drone War: Why Ukraine Holds the Key to America’s AI Supremacy
13. U.S. SOCOM inducts 18 SOF warriors into Commando Hall of Honor
14. China buyers selling knockoffs of Russian military gear back to Russia
15. Five Points of Pentagon Reform?
16. Why The State Department Needs To Maintain The Scope Of Its Human Rights Reports
17. Agentic Warfare Is Here. Will America Be the First Mover?
18. Vance Outlines U.S. Plan for Ukraine That Sharply Favors Russia
19. In Brief: How to Improve the Foreign Military Sales Process
20. CIA Veterans Alarmed by Rubio Plan to Close US Embassies in Africa
21. What if Bin Laden Was Killed in the Era of Generative AI?
22. Is the World Going to Deglobalize?
23. Peaceful Resolution: Reframing U.S. Defense Strategy Toward Taiwan
24. Indonesia and the Creeping Threat of ‘Military Operations Other Than War’
25. New Name, Expanded Mission for Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
26. If You Want to Keep War Irregular and ‘Over There’ — Who You Gonna Call?
Korean News Content:
1. FM Cho says S. Korea’s engagement with China aligns with U.S. interests
2. S. Korea, China hold maritime talks amid tensions over steel structures in Yellow Sea
3. Acting president visits joint warfighting headquarters between S. Korean, U.S. forces
4. Han Duck-soo’s Risky Negotiation With Donald Trump
5. S. Korea’s new gov’t may have to deal with U.S. ‘strategic flexibility’ over USFK: U.S. expert
6. Trump Jr. to visit S. Korea next week at invitation of Shinsegae chairman
7. UNC contacted N. Korea over repatriation of 2 aboard drifting boat: minister
8. Bessent calls for allies’ stronger defense commitments ahead of trade talks with S. Korea
9. Rubio describes N. Korea as ‘nuclear armed’ country
10. Dismissal of U.S. envoy for North Korean human rights signals State Department overhaul
11. Ex-US intel official softens stance on ROK nuclear armament amid growing threats
12. The New North Korea: How Geopolitical Advantages and Growing Middle Class Prosperity Challenge the Next South Korean President
13. U.S. military WMD response team conducts first-ever exercise in Korea
14. Breaking point: School expenses spark rare public complaints from N. Korean parents
15. U.S. delivering ‘more forward’ Indo-Pacific force posture to deter China: Pentagon chief
16. How Japan’s plan for single Asian theater risks overlooking North Korean threats
17. South Korea launches spy satellite from US space base
