5/12/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News Content:

1. Joint Statement on U.S.-China Economic and Trade Meeting in Geneva
2. Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures a Historic Trade Win for the United States
3. Trump’s Budget Hawk Takes Over the DOGE Agenda. First Up: The Military.

4. The Danger for India and Pakistan Has Not Gone Away
5. INVESTIGATION: Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford
6. Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine has an ‘algorithm’ for US ‘winning’
7. US special ops gets first Skyraider II close-support planes, eyes bespoke mission sets
8. Could striking first in cyber be new Pentagon policy?
9. Air Force Special Operations wants to fire cruise missiles from Reaper drones
10. A counter to drone swarms: high-power microwave weapons
11. 1Special Operations News – Monday, May 12, 2025
12. US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return
13. Osirak’s Shadow: Israel and the Iranian Dilemma
14. Kurdish Militant Group PKK to End Four-Decade Conflict With Turkey
15. Army’s Future Tiltrotor Gets Heavier So It Can Rapidly Convert Into Special Ops Variant
16. China’s absence from talks on Ukraine shows ‘real limits’ of its leverage, analyst says
17. New Drone Boat Unveiled At Special Operations Conference In Afterglow Of Ukrainian Success
18. What Does Trump Want in the Middle East?
19. The Resurgence of Europe
20. The Strategic Misreading of Taiwan Is a Dangerous Oversight
21. The CIA Is Making a New Push to Recruit Chinese Officials. Will It Work?
22. Northern Myanmar Poses a Challenge to China’s Critical Minerals Strategy
23. US-China tariff truce gives Asia time and space to reset
24. Bolton: Putin at risk of ‘overplaying his hand’ on Ukraine talks
25. Inside MAGA’s fight for “Western civilization”

Korean News Content:

1. north Korea and Human Rights  Ji Hyun Park
2. Kim Joo-ae visits Russian embassy in North Korea with Kim Jong-un… “International stage debut”
3. Deploying North Korean Special Forces to Japan: A Potential Game Changer in the Korean Crisis
4. Presidential campaigns kick off
5. Court again delays hearing on Lee’s case until after election
6. Top court says its justices will not appear for parliamentary hearing on Lee’s retrial
7. Prosecution orders ex-first lady Kim Keon Hee to appear for questioning over influence-peddling scandal
8. Appeals court upholds fine for Lee Jae-myung’s wife over election law violations
9. A second Kim Keon-hee? South Korea’s presidential race marred by superstition claims
10. DP candidate Lee kicks off official campaign for presidential election
11. Air Force to resume live-fire drills following accidental bombing
12. New PPP leader apologizes for martial law crisis in first public remarks
13. S. Korea, NATO hold military staff talks over defense cooperation
14. 2 Taiwanese nationals nabbed for filming U.S. air base facilities
15. U.N. to host 1st high-level meeting on N. Korea’s human rights violations
16. Kim Jong-un’s new flagship destroyer armed with nuclear missiles can’t even SAIL
17. Air Power Days return to South Korea, featuring final Warthog display
18. Crypto Heists By North Korea Set To Face G7 Fire In Canada
19. North Korean leader calls support for Russia in Ukraine a ‘sacred mission’
20. Rethinking South Korea’s Three-Axis System