6/28/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.28.2025 at 05:02pm
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National Security News Content:
1. Covert Action: Evaluating the Future Leadership of US Strategic Covert Operations
2. The CIA-directed sabotage cells setting Russia ablaze
3. What Remains of U.S.A.I.D.?
4. How to Sell a Clash of Civilizations
5. Loyalty or Leadership? Civil-Military Trust in the Age of Power Consolidation
6. Life in Iran After the Strikes: Executions, Arrests and Paranoia
7. The Grandfathers Fighting on Ukraine’s Front Lines
8. The President’s Defense Budget Misses the Mark
9. The Strike on Iran Was ‘Jacksonian’
10. Taiwan Looks to New Sea-Drone Tech to Repel China
11. Donald Trump’s Head-Spinning Foreign Policy
12. U.S. Economy Shrugs Off Trade War and Soldiers On
13. Taking Hegseth Seriously on ‘Fake News’ and the Iran Strike
14. Morale craters at State Department as mass layoffs loom
15. Hypermasculinity Is Driving U.S. Foreign Policy
16. India-U.S. Relations: Between Courteous Acquaintance and Civilizational Dissonance
17. Centcom leader highlights need for more tech that can target underground sites
18. War 4.0: Armed Conflict in an Age of Speed, Uncertainty and Transformation
19. ‘Not something to celebrate’: As it turns 80 and faces dwindling global clout, can the UN survive？
20. Scoop: Trump to limit sharing classified info with Congress after leak on Iran bombing damage
21. Absent at the Creation? American Strategy and the Delusion of a Post-Trump Restoration
22. Bring U.S. troops home from the Middle East
23. Why it matters whether Iran’s nuclear program was really obliterated
24. The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
25. Mongolia’s Government Transition: Democracy in Action or Foreign Interference?
26. Carl Von Clausewitz And The Clausewitzian Viewpoint Of Warfare: A Theoretical Approach
27. Countering Chinese lawfare in the Indo-Pacific
28. SOF Roles in Crisis CT Response: A Multidomain Response to Maritime Counterterrorism
29. Taiwan’s Model for Digital Defense of Democracy Goes Global
Korean News Content:
1. U.S. pressures South Korea to raise defense budget
2. Seoul, Washington launch working-level talks on 5% defense spending target
3. Trump says U.S. will ‘get conflict solved’ with N. Korea if there’s one
4. Top U.S. diplomat’s visit to S. Korea next month under discussion
5. Caught in the crossfire: What the Israel-Iran crisis means for Seoul
6. Korea’s Nuclear Landscape: Past and Present
7. The Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Program Should Be a Warning to South Korea
8. Trump’s attack on Iran pushed diplomacy with Kim Jong Un further out of reach
9. ‘No justice in North Korea’: Defectors at UN hearing testify about executions, mounting abuses by regime
10. Exclusive: China threatened S. Korean research ship near unauthorized structure in Yellow Sea
11. Iran’s Failed Deterrence: Lessons for North Korea
12. Sitting Out the NATO Summit May Be Lee Jae-myung’s Best Move
13. 6 Americans detained in South Korea for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea by sea
14. President Lee Jae-myung: “I will pursue practical diplomacy based on a strong ROK-US alliance”
15. Some North Korean Residents: “More Burden Than Expected” About Wonsan and Galma Tourism
16. N. Korea unveils grand beach resort as it seeks to exploit sanctions loophole
