7/31/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
07.31.2025 at 12:46pm
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National Security News Content:
1. Going Soft on China Could Be a Hard Lesson
2. Adversary Entente Task Force, July 30, 2025
3. Actions create consequences – a telling few days? are we seeing the beginning of actions with consequences? (China/Taiwan) by Dr. Cynthia Watson
4. Army secretary removes former CISA director from new role at West Point after far-right backlash
5. Inside Ukraine’s Effort to Fortify Hundreds of Miles of Defensive Lines
6. Trump threatens trade deal over Canada’s Palestine stance
7. Trump’s Tariffs Drive ASEAN Closer to China
8. How to Lose the Drone War – American Military Doctrine Is Stifling Innovation
9. The Big Mistake the West Is Making About Russia, China, and Iran
10. To Put Iran on Ice, the U.S. Must Freeze Out China
11. Top Generals Nominated for New Positions Must Now Meet With Trump
12. Hydrogen-powered naval warfare gets a boost
13. Senior officers need more data training, Army counterdrone exercise suggests
14. US government will ingest all federal data into AI models, WH tech director says
15. Who should coordinate Europe’s defense buildup?
16. The Indo-Pacific Chooses Options, Not Sides
17. WHAT IS THE ARMY OF 2040?
18. Chinese warships arrive in Russia’s far east for joint Pacific naval exercise
19. Narratives Under Fire: Information Warfare Lessons from India–Pakistan and Ukraine–Russia
20. How SASC, HASC want to spend reconciliation on Golden Dome, munitions
21. To drink or not to drink – the Party decides in China
22. Arab states call on Hamas to disarm and relinquish power in unprecedented move
23. GOP Eyes European Money to Replace U.S. Weapons Donated to Ukraine
24. Senate Approves Trump’s Pick for Top Counterterrorism Post
25. US Earth imaging satellite fleet is creating ‘low-cost orbital landmines’, China team says
26. Five words that today are gratingly misapplied or worn out
Korean News Content:
1. Trump, South Korea strike 15% tariff deal ahead of deadline
2. Lee to face tough diplomatic test in 1st summit with Trump following trade deal
3. Seoul official says ‘MASGA’ and Lutnick helped S. Korea reach tariff deal with U.S.
4. S. Korea averts worst-case scenario with tariff deal, despite woes to exports under strained FTA
5. Korean firms likely to announce new U.S. investment plans as follow-up to U.S. tariff deal
6. The Korea-U.S. alliance: A strategic pillar
7. As tariff deal reached, alliance challenges loom in S. Korea-U.S. relations
8. S. Korea says trade deal with U.S. ensures no further market opening to rice, beef
9. US lowers tariffs on Korea to 15% in return for $350 bil. in investments
10. ‘Make American Shipbuilding Great Again’ project touted as key contributor to tariff deal
11. DPRK AGITPROP AGGRESSION. DAVID MAXWELL, GORDON CHANG (John Batchelor Show interview)
12. What’s in the U.S.-South Korea Trade Deal?
13. N. Korean man who crossed border in early July expresses wish to defect to South: official
14. S. Korea permits private-level inter-Korean exchanges without restrictions
15. Lee-Trump summit expected in US within 2 weeks
16. The worst has been avoided – The Korea Times
17. Seoul’s moment to lead on North Korean human rights
18. The ‘Impossible’ Price of a Peace Deal With North Korea
19. North Korea-Russia alliance more than a ‘brotherhood of arms’
20. US tariff deal clears way for Korea’s stablecoin dream
21. The real threat on Korean Peninsula: Chinese, North Korean political warfare
