7/25/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
07.25.2025 at 01:27pm
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National Security News Content:
1. Pentagon suspends participation in think tank events
2. Stand with Taiwan: Countering the PRC’s Political Warfare and Transnational Repression
3. Fan Yun tells US hearing about Chinese threats
4. Why China Won’t Stop the Fentanyl Trade
5. Gazans Are Finished With Hamas
6. Trump’s Tariffs Are Being Picked Up by Corporate America
7. State Dept. cuts China experts as administration says countering Beijing top priority
8. Forecasting the Fifth Wave: Emerging Terrorist Threats in a Changing World
9. Book Review | Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan
10. Brains, Bluntness, and the Battle for US Foreign Policy: The Legacy of Zbig Brzezinski (Review Essay)
11. Beijing’s South China Sea Campaign of Intimidation Has Run Aground
12. China’s Overlooked AI Strategy – Beijing Is Using Soft Power to Gain Global Dominance
13. ‘Innovation Corps’ tech execs are in training, but don’t have assignments yet
14. Meet the ‘cobots’ that could lower the cost of building submarines
15. The Real Meaning of Putin’s Middle East Failure
16. The Coming Pax Geriatrica – Aging Societies and Depopulation Will Lead to Fewer Wars
17. By cutting science, the Defense Department is eating its seed corn
18. US Army envisions a common launcher to fit allies’ weapons
19. How the Pentagon plays into Trump’s sprawling artificial intelligence ‘Action Plan’
20. War with China ‘would result in large-scale casualties,’ Army general says
21. Advancing Diplomacy and Approaching Deadlines (WOTR – The Adversarial)
22. Space and Ice: Envisioning Special Operations Forces’ Role in Future Operational Environments
23. The precious ‘white gold’ fuel buried in the Earth
24. Hackers breach intelligence website used by CIA
25. Pentagon lags behind China in realizing strategies for cognitive warfare, Senate report finds
26. Achieved Overmatch – A Potential Future for AI in the Army
27. Israel’s 12-Day War Revealed Alarming Gap in America’s Missile Stockpile
28. US Army to Add Four New Patriot Missile Battalions, Including Guam Unit
29. Are We About to Lose the Massive Ordnance Penetrator?
30. How China’s new Information Support Force gears military up for PLA modernisation
31. Taiwan recall: shock waves likely no matter who prevails on ballots, analysts say
Korean News Content:
1. US formalizes talks to modernize alliance with South Korea
2. North Korean Dissidents Display Art at VOC Museum
3. South Korea must rethink its one-sided courtship of North Korea
4. South Korea Jockeys for a Deal With Trump at Least as Good as Japan’s
5. South Korean trade negotiators meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Lutnick
6. Arizona woman imprisoned for $17M North Korean remote workers scheme
7. U.S. takes flurry of steps to disrupt N. Korea’s illicit revenue generation
8. 2 Chinese men indicted for allegedly filming U.S. aircraft carrier at naval base in S. Korea
9. S. Korea, U.S. to continue trade talks before Aug. 1 deadline: presidential office
10. 2 soldiers get 30 days’ leave for intercepting North Korean man inside DMZ
11. New agreement allows South Korean firm to repair US Army Chinooks
12. North Korea jams GPS signals near maritime border, leading ROK to warn ships
13. How North Korea hijacked America’s national pastime to take a swing at the US
14. New unification minister prioritizes resuming dialogue with N. Korea as he takes office
15. Vice FM Kim discusses alliance, economic ties with senior U.S. diplomat
16. New defense minister vows to rebuild military as 1st civilian chief
17. National security adviser fails to meet Rubio during ‘final critical stages’ of tariff talks
18. North Korean youth risk arrest for speaking like South Koreans
