5/9/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News Content:

1. SOF Week 2025—Clarity, Commitment, and Cognitive Edge
2. What Is Strategy in War?
3. Special Operations Forces Week comes together to focus on the warrior ethos
4. AFSOC experimenting with small cruise missiles, new ways to use old kit
5. Upgrades ahead across the special operations helicopter fleet
6. Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile-Armed AC-130J Gunships Could Be On The Horizon
7. Rapid fielding, adaptation dominate discussions at SOF Week 2025
8. Allies of Resistance: America Needs More Porcupine Partners
9. Why Beijing Is Worried About Chinese People’s ‘Well-being’
10. Investing in Strategic Influence: A National Security Imperative
11. Real ID Is Useless, Unconstitutional and Finally Here
12. Russia’s Plans Are Bigger Than Conflict With the West or Camaraderie With China
13. Putin Parades China, North Korea Ties in Victory Day Show of Force
14. Could Taiwan Survive an EMP Attack by China?
15. China’s Exports to U.S. Plunge, in Sign of Bite From Trump Tariffs
16. How Putin Keeps Russia’s Battle-Hardened Veterans on His Side
17. China to Crack Down on Rare-Earth Materials Ahead of U.S. Trade Talks
18. Military AI: Angel of our Better Nature or Tool of Control?
19. How the Houthis Outlasted America
20. Russia’s False Euphoria
21. The shuttering of Voice of America hurts our ability to explain ourselves
22. How Trump’s Ending of U.S.A.I.D. Threatens a Nation’s Fragile Peace
23. America’s new suicide bomber drone that creates its own kill list

Korean News Content:

1. Pursuing Stable Coexistence: A Reorientation of U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
2. South Korea’s Global Vision: Opportunities for UK–South Korea Partnership
3. Putin Parades China, North Korea Ties in Victory Day Show of Force
4. DP candidate says strong S. Korea-Japan relations vital to economy, security
5. PPP candidate, party’s interim leader clash again on candidacy merger
6. Court dismisses injunction seeking to recognize Kim Moon-soo as PPP presidential candidate
7. Putin meets N. Korean military delegation during Victory Day parade in Moscow
8. What if a successful Chinese invasion of Taiwan emboldens North Korea
9. ROK ruling party candidate Kim Moon-soo embraces nukes to counter North Korea
10. Putin, Xi demand end to sanctions and ‘military pressure’ against North Korea
11. North Korean missile test simulates nuclear attack on US-ROK forces: State media
12. North Korea claims ‘nuclear trigger training’, but… “Purpose is to export 600mm rocket launcher to Russia”
13. Korean Abductee Families Distribute Anti-North Korea Leaflets Along Gangwon Border