7/22/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
07.22.2025 at 10:41am
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National Security News Content:
1. How Political Polarization Is Killing Grand Strategy
2. Trump Arms Ukraine But Still Wants Out by John Bolton
3. Hegseth Attends Meeting on Ukraine After Skipping Last Session
4. Why Putin keeps making the same Ukraine mistakes by Mick Ryan
5. Chinese Officers Questioned U.S. Government Employee About His Army Service
6. China says Wells Fargo executive ‘involved in a criminal case’
7. How China Curbed Its Oil Addiction—and Blunted a U.S. Pressure Point
8. Vodka Toasts With the Dictator of Belarus: How Diplomacy Gets Done in Trump 2.0
9. The Real Meaning of the State Department RIF
10. Kyiv as the New Berlin: Ukraine’s Role in Modern Espionage Conflict
11. See How Drones Are Dominating Every Corner of the War in Ukraine
12. Iran’s Leaders Turn to a New Brand of Nationalism After Israeli and U.S. Attacks
13. In Search of Trade Deal, Philippines’ Leader Will Meet With Trump
14. The for-profit companies behind Israeli-U.S. nonprofit Gaza aid plan
15. SOF News: Drones on the Battlefield
16. Allied Arsenal: Building Strength Through Shared Production
17. Book Review – Into the Void: Special Operations Forces after the War on Terror
18. America Should Assume the Worst About AI
19. Tariffs Won’t Fix the Country’s Reliance on Foreign Medicines
20. ‘He Will Win No Further’: How Trump’s New Ukraine Plan Aims to Finally Stop Putin
Korean News Content:
1. PM says Trump’s attendance at APEC summit could lead to discussion of Korean Peninsula issues
2. S. Korea, U.S. to hold ‘2+2’ trade talks in Washington: finance minister
3. N. Korea says to build additional 5,000-ton destroyer by Oct. 2026
4. N. Korean delegation of senior female officials visits Russia: KCNA
5. Another Lee trial postponed in halt to all 5 of his trials
6. Hanwha Philly Shipyard wins 1st LNG carrier order under Hanwha ownership
7. Presidential secretary resigns over controversial remarks defending martial law
8. In South Korea conservatism equals pro-Americanism. Will it last?
9. Russian media showering North Korea with unprecedented attention, report finds
10. Hanwha Aerospace positioned to lead S. Korea-U.S. helicopter MRO project: company official
11. Pyongyang’s new strategy: Exploiting S. Korea’s political divisions and weakened NGOs
12. N. Korea’s anti-South propaganda session triggers unexpected admiration
13. Heat wave deaths rise in agricultural areas
14. From drone flights to Marine’s death, special probes turn sights on military
15. The future of US-ROK-Japan trilateral cooperation
16. The painful road to freedom: A North Korean escapee’s story
17. North Korea’s Deadly Drone Bonanza Is Coming to a Peninsula Near You
