6/20-21/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.21.2025 at 09:41am
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National Security News Content:
1. Trump’s Two-Week Pause Is a Big Gamble Iran Nuclear Crisis Will Break His Way
2. Inside Bibi’s Trump–Iran Psyop
3. Surprises Ahead in the Israel-Iran War?
4. Shifting World Order Threatens to Expand the Nuclear-Arms Club
5. queries by a savvy reader – this is what dialogue allows by Dr. Cynthia Watson
6. No One’s Going to Use a Nuclear Weapon Against Fordow
7. Iran Remains Defiant as Pressure Builds to End Nuclear-Fuel Enrichment
8. Meet SOCOM, the special US forces that may enter Iran to take care of ‘loose nukes’
9. Russia just accidentally admitted to its staggering troop losses in Ukraine
10. Army expanding ‘Transformation in Contact’ initiative to Army Guard
11. Firms led by US military veterans deliver aid in Africa and Gaza, alarming humanitarian groups
12. A U.S. Attack on Iran Would Show the Limits of China’s Power
13. Xi and Putin present united front over Israel-Iran crisis, in veiled message to Trump
14. Voice of America gutted by Trump adviser Kari Lake
15. Putting Operation Spider’s Web in Context
16. Intelligence, Strategy, and the Israeli-Iranian War
17. “THIS WE’LL DEFEND”: THE ENDURING ROLE OF FM 1 IN THE ARMY PROFESSION
18. Close NATO’s Door to Ukraine
19. Will Iran Surrender? by Sir Lawrence Freedman
20. Progress Without Programs: Reforming U.S. Department of Defense Global Health Engagement for Economic and Strategic Advantage
21. The Right Path to Regime Change in Iran
22. The Obsolete Divide: We Need a New Rank System for the Future Fight
23. Americans Are Thriving. Why Don’t We Feel Like It?
24. America Is on the Verge of Catastrophe in the Middle East
25. Lessons from the New Cold War: America Confronts the China Challenge
Korean News Content:
1. Decapitation as Deterrence: Why U.S.-ROK Special Forces Must Be Ready for the Worst in North Korea
2. ‘Standard’ of 5 pct GDP defense spending applies to S. Korea, Asian allies: Pentagon
3. Trump repeats NATO members should spend 5 pct of GDP on defense
4. S. Korea says share of its defense spending against GDP ‘very high’ compared with key U.S. allies
5. North Korea Sending Russia Thousand Of Workers To Build Shahed Drones: Report
6. Colorado-based Stryker brigade takes over 9-month mission near North Korean border
7. Why North Korea Is Ignoring South Korea Again
8. North Korea’s deadly COVID lie
9. N. Korea sends combat engineers to Russia, seeks bigger rewards
10. Lee will post social media messages in both Korean and foreign languages to ‘show respect’
11.Korean, U.S. diplomats agree on efforts for bilateral alliance, trilateral cooperation with Japan
12. North Korea soon opening borders to ‘select’ Chinese tourists, travel agency says
13. N. Korean POWs in Ukraine should not be repatriated against will: U.N. official
14. U.S. intends to revoke waivers to restrict allies from sending U.S. chipmaking tools to China: report
