5/30/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. Termination notices expected to go out to all remaining Voice of America employees this week
2. Democrats urge Rubio, Noem to protect USAGM foreign journalists
3. Beijing targeted friends of U.S.-based reporter amid campaign against Radio Free Asia, documents reveal – ICIJ
4. Protect Radio Free Asia – Stand With Journalists at Radio Free Asia
5. ANDREW NEIL: Putin just humiliated Trump. But was it a trap? There are White House whispers about what’s coming next
6. America Let Its Military-Industrial Might Wither. China’s Is Booming.
7. Targeting Chinese Students Threatens the Bottom Line at American Universities
8. Federal Authorities Probe Effort to Impersonate White House Chief of Staff
9. Trump Makes a New Push to ‘Decouple’ U.S. From China
10. Why the U.S. Opened Its Doors to Chinese Students, and Why Trump Is Closing Them
11. Special Forces and Operation Noble Obelisk (1997)
12. Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
13. Next Steps on Building an America First State Department
14. New plans detail State Department layoffs and changes
15. An Intellectual Preparation Guide for Joint Task Force Southern Border
16. US IT specialist arrested after attempting to share classified information with foreign government: DOJ
17. China snubs Asia’s largest defense forum as tensions with US simmer
18. Secretary Hegseth’s First Shangri-La Dialogue Speech: Why It Matters—and What to Watch For
19. The US Army is too light to win
20. Pentagon Weighs Bigger Army as Service Sees Early Recruiting Success
21. Nordic nations embrace total defense as the risk of sabotage and war rises
22. “Excellent” Calls and “Very Good” Talks but Little Clear Progress
Korean News Content:
1.US is leaving open the possibility of a troop drawdown in South Korea
2. Interviews with John Batchelor and Gordon Chang
3. Termination notices expected to go out to all remaining Voice of America employees this week
4. Protect Radio Free Asia – Stand With Journalists at Radio Free Asia
5. Exclusive: Lee Jae-myung Aims to Steer South Korea Through Crisis
6. ‘US troops critical’: South Korean presidential candidate signals turn on China policy
7. South Korea: Presidential candidates’ human rights policies surveyed
8. US troops in Korea may soon switch focus from Pyongyang to Beijing
9. Ex-top U.S. envoy says geopolitical challenges in Indo-Pacific cannot be looked at in ‘stovepiped way’
10. Early-voting turnout hits 34.74 pct ahead of presidential election
11. S. Korea approves domestic operations of Starlink, OneWeb satellite internet services
12. 3 things to watch ahead of June 3 South Korea presidential vote
13. N. Koreans criticize mass arrests after destroyer launch disaster
14. N. Korean women’s union lectures promote ‘powerful state’ claims despite economic reality
15. Fears of a purge in shipyard town after North Korea destroyer launch goes wrong
16. Former Ambassador Harris: “US Will Not Weaken Promise to ‘Defend Korea’”
17. Farewell Message from General (Ret.) Curtis M. Scaparrotti (Korea Defense Veterans Association)
