6/1/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.01.2025 at 03:05pm
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National Security News Content:
1. Hegseth Wins Praise But Asia Still Has Strong Doubts About Trump
2. Hegseth Warns of ‘Devastating Consequences’ Should China Seek to ‘Conquer’ Taiwan
3. Chinese general fires back at US defence chief over Shangri-La Dialogue remarks
4. Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School’
5. To Protect Taiwan, Don’t Prepare to Defend It
6. United States wondered how China had made such progress in the field of microchips. Huawei and Xiaomi are the answer, with massive development.
7. State Department seeking to create an “Office of Remigration” in wide restructuring
8. Can Japan fill the leadership void as America steps back from Asia?
9. Hegseth says the U.S. will reposition military amid threat from China
10. Russia’s Hybrid Warfare Tactics Target the Baltics
11. A US cavalier talks ‘imminent’ war in Singapore
12. NATO faces make-or-break decision on a post-US future
13. Spheres of Influence Are Not the Answer
14. Seven dead after two Russian bridges collapse in regions near Ukraine
15. How SE Asia can break China’s rare earth monopoly
16. ‘A massive headache’: State Department tries to figure out how to handle Chinese student visa reviews
17. Far From Home: Uyghur Workers in Factories Supplying Global Brands
Korean News Content:
1. South Korea’s snap presidential election 2025: All you need to know
2. South Korean election: The country votes for a new president after six months of political chaos
3. South Korea’s Election Likely to Reset Ties With China
4. South Korea presidential election: can a new leader heal a fractured nation?
5. Hegseth says the U.S. will reposition military amid threat from China
6. North Korea Gets a Weapons Bonanza From Russia
7. S. Korea stresses importance of maintaining USFK in talks with U.S. lawmakers
8. Presidential rivals make last-ditch campaign push with election 2 days away
9. Hwang Kyo-ahn quits presidential race to back Kim Moon-soo
10. S. Korea’s exports down 1.3 pct on-year to US$57.3 billion in May on Trump tariff effect: data
11. Will South Korea Abandon Taiwan (and US Alliance) Under New President?
12. South Korean Women Are Powerful—and Powerless
13. From a Seoul office, a North Korean defector governs the province of his birth
14. Russian Embassy in Pyongyang posts letter written by North Korean soldier deployed to Russia
15. Strategic pivot, not pullback, if US troops relocate from Korea, says Harris
