5/19/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
05.19.2025 at 04:10pm
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National Security News Content:
1. Special operations are becoming the Pentagon’s future ‘normal’
2. Mike Waltz Fell Into an Age-Old Trap in Political History
3. Putin’s Plan to Outlast Ukraine and the U.S.
4. China Fills the U.S. Void in the Americas
5. Special Operations News – Monday, May 19, 2025
6. On this Day in History: Lawrence of Arabia dies
7. Rare-Earths Plants Are Popping Up Outside China
8. Tariff War De-Escalation: Prelude To Geopolitical Rebalancing – OpEd
9. Trump’s actions are pushing thousands of experts to flee government
10. The possibilities and pitfalls of unorthodox diplomacy
11. A Time to Act: Japanese Security Between the United States and China
12. In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.
13. The Moody’s Downgrade Is an Alarm. Washington Better Pay Attention.
14. Americans are getting wise to the left’s chicanery
15. Book Review | The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace
16. Opinion: The China threat was always real. The American response never was.
17. Opinion | By eroding US soft power, Trump is ceding the contest to China
18. Tariffs Create Markets — Just Not the Ones Policymakers Want
19. The New Cold War with China
20. Defend Taiwan: The Reason Why
21. The Inequality Myth: Western Societies Are Growing More Equal, Not Less
22. Distorting a Legacy — The Misrepresentation of General William J. Donovan in “Secrets Declassified”
Korean News Content:
1. N. Korea’s Kim could face war crime probe for supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine
2. N. Korea’s Kim pays tribute to prominent military figure
3. Military says N. Korea likely received Russian support for air-to-air missiles
4. The South Korea-US Alliance Is Due for an Overhaul
5. As U.S. tariffs loom, South Korea talks quietly, Japan talks tough
6. Why Lee Jae-myung praised Park Chung Hee on the campaign trail
7. Timeline of North Korea-Russia Cooperation Since 2022
8. Ministry of Unification: “North Korea Replaces ‘Tongilgak’ Signboard with ‘Panmun-gwan’”
9. North Korea supplies ‘portable radio detectors’ to the Ministry of State Security
10. Pyongyang-Moscow Ties Are a Force Multiplier to Pyongyang-Beijing Relations
11. Recalibrating US Strategy on North Korea
12. N. Korean parents spend rice money on uniforms as state-supplied clothing falls short
13. N. Korean official ousted for falsifying rice reserve reports
14. North-China Border 1,000km Journey by a North Korean Defector and Fourth-Generation Korean-Japanese (1): To the Closest Point to My Ancestral Land, North Korea
