5/11/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
05.11.2025 at 03:45pm
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National Security News Content:
1. Senior Official Outlines Future Priorities for Special Ops
2. Medal of Honor Recipients Offer Insights at Special Ops Convention
3. A ‘Reverse Kissinger’? Not While Xi and Putin Are Around by Hal Brands
4. Xi-Putin meeting complicates Trump’s ‘Reverse Nixon’ strategy
5. What We Know About How the 4-Day India and Pakistan Clashes Unfolded
6. India and Pakistan: How backchannels and US mediators pulled rivals back from the brink
7. The Danger for India and Pakistan Has Not Gone Away
8. The Chinese Way of Winning
9. Ukraine Insists Truce Must Come Before Putin’s Proposed Peace Talks
10. Stakes Rise as U.S. and China Open Second Day of Trade Talks
11. U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks Hit Halfway Mark With Major Hurdles to Clear
12. Unwitting Pawns: Companies Are on the Front Lines of a New Global Conflict
13. Wake up, Westerners – the evils of Xinjiang are a taste of the future
14. Joseph Nye Was the Champion of a World That No Longer Exists
15. China’s hit spy drama The Secret Path gets real-life tips from top security agency
16. To Dominate the Arctic, Trump Needs Ice-Breaking Ships. Finland Wants to Help.
17. ASEAN At A Crossroads: Safeguarding Centrality Amid South China Sea Tensions
18. ‘Beacon of freedom’ dims as US initiatives that promote democracy abroad wither under Trump
19. The Ideological Gurus Battling for the Soul of Trump World
20. President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
21. One of Alcatraz’s last living inmates on Trump’s plan to reopen prison
22. Defense Stocks Are Under Fire. How to Play the New World Order.
Korean News Content:
1. Russia and North Korea Turn Their War Alliance Into a Propaganda Tool
2. Kim Jong Un says US weapons “tacky, defective”
3. Strategic nuclear collaboration by China, Russia, North Korea weakens U.S. deterrence
4. Revealed: North Korea’s Diplomatic Missions Double as Trade Brokers
5. For the first time in 80 years, nuclear war is a real possibility
6. US to Seek UN Sanctions on Ships Taking North Korean Coal to China
7. North Korea’s illegal wildlife trade threatens endangered species, study finds
8. Refusing to conform: New book highlights female resistance in Kim Jong Un’s N. Korea
9. Royal reality show: How Kim Jong Un is using his family to captivate N. Korea’s youth
10. Pyongyang’s housing project: Potemkin villages with skywalks
11. The Shackled Wave: North Korea’s Enigmatic Interplay with Asian Ascendancy and Hallyu
12. PPP’s Kim Moon-soo registers presidential candidacy with election watchdog
13. Official campaigning for June 3 presidential election to begin Monday
14. DP’s Lee expands lead to over 50 pct in hypothetical matchup with PPP’s Kim: poll
15. S. Korean, U.S. navies stage joint drills in East Sea
16. Nuclear power becomes No. 1 energy source for S. Korea for first time in 2024
17. Forget the F-35: Canada Could Buy South Korea’s ‘F-35 Lite’ (Meet the KF-21)
18. USTR Greer to visit S. Korea for trade talks this week
19. Kim Jong Un’s special forces unit gets 15-month training regimen, up from six
