6/17/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.17.2025 at 02:08pm
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National Security News Content:
1. U.S. Expands Military Footprint in Middle East as Trump Says He Wants End to Conflict
2. Trump Leaves G-7 Summit Early Over Growing Tensions in Middle East
3. Trump Officials Weighed Broader China Tech Restrictions Ahead of Trade Talks
4. Britain’s MI6 spy agency gets its first female chief
5. Iran’s Ballistic Missiles Have a ‘Forgotten Source’: North Korea
6. Putin Isn’t Actually Enjoying This
7. Putin Tries to Wear Trump Down
8. Washington War Games: How the U.S. Prepared for an Iran Strike
9. Debate: Should the U.S. Intervene in Iran?
10. Israel’s strikes against Tehran broaden as Trump issues ominous warning
11. What Iran Didn’t Learn in the Past Year
12. Quantifying the Gray Zone: A Framework for Measuring Hybrid Warfare Power Balances
13. Weaponizing Commercial Airspace Disruption: An Emergent Strategy for Iran and the Houthis
14. The Case Against a Pacific Defense Pact
15. Why the Defense Sector Is a Strategic Imperative, Not a Passing Trend
16. Why Study War? Military Readiness’s Intellectual Dimension
17. How the Army is Putting the Commander Back in Command and Control
18. Before the Legend: SF Fight for Acceptance | SOF News
19. India’s Great-Power Delusions
20. Spike Missiles That Destroyed Air Defenses From Inside Iran Were Remotely Operated
21. China’s state security agency warns of phishing emails sent by foreign spies
22. The Army Was the Only Life She Knew. Trump’s Trans Ban Cast Her Out.
Korean News Content:
1. Iran’s Ballistic Missiles Have a ‘Forgotten Source’: North Korea
2. South Korea’s radical drone carrier concept enters race for maritime power projection
3. The Case Against a Pacific Defense Pact
4. Chinese Espionage in South Korea is a U.S. Intelligence Problem
5. N. Korea to send 6,000 military builders, sappers to Kursk region
6. N. Korea slams U.S. over ‘strategic flexibility’ to expand USFK role
7. Russia’s security chief in Pyongyang for meeting with N. Korea’s Kim: report
8. Delegation of N. Korea’s state-run news agency departs for Russia to attend OANA meeting
9. Lee-Trump talks called off due to US leader’s early G7 exit
10. S. Korea, US to hold 5th NCG meeting in Seoul next month: source
11. AMCHAM delegation visits Washington to discuss cooperation under new Seoul administration
12. Apple requests S. Korea to allow transfer of high-precision map data overseas
13. South Korea’s Emerging AI Gap
14. Pyongyang elite embrace ‘designer’ clothes from abroad
15. N. Korea’s market tax hikes drive underground commerce
16. N. Korea orders anti-US propaganda blitz targeting youth
17. N. Korea reaffirms ‘ultra-hardline’ US strategy to prosecutors
18. Police arrest ROK man for launching anti-North Korea leaflets near border
