8/15/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
- Putin and Trump arrive for summit, with last minute format change
- Bringing Putin to the Dock for War Crimes, No Easy Task
- Live updates: Trump, Putin take no questions, signal no agreement after talks in Alaska
- Partners in Deterrence: China and Russia’s Deepening Military-Technical Ties
- US Navy denies Chinese military report that it ‘drove away’ destroyer
- Passenger on F-15 ride-along ejected on runway, video shows
- Ukraine’s Patriots Now Struggling To Intercept Enhanced Russian Ballistic Missiles
- “Next Time in Moscow!”: Initial Assessment of the Alaska Summit
- Data as Firepower: An Exploration of Data Superiority as a Warfighting Concept
- ‘Primal Intelligence’ Review: Why Brains Are Better
- For Booz Allen, 2025 is the year of the ‘pivot’
- Troops in DC to help with ‘monument security,’ ‘area beautification’
- Trump-Putin Meeting: No Deal Reached at Russia-Ukraine War Summit
- The Quad in an ‘America First’ World
- China’s Fast-Shrinking Central Military Commission: Implications for the PLA
- Stop Saying “Uncrewed” Vehicles
- Swap Around and Find Out: The New Rules of International Digital Economic Warfare
- China’s Soft Power Tools and Whether They Work
- Hellfire Missile Launcher Disguised As Civilian Truck Breaks Cover In Taiwan
- The First Step in Negotiations With Russia
- China Is Enjoying Trump 2.0
- Russia’s Hybrid War on Poland
23.China is working on reusable rockets—and a strategic leap in space power
- Pentagon belatedly defends Driscoll against Loomer attacks
Korean News Content:
1. Lee vows to respect N. Korea’s political system, won’t pursue unification by absorption
2. South Korea’s Lee says no plans for ‘unification by absorption’ with North
3. Civil society group urges national reset on Korean liberation’s 80th anniversary
4. On Korea’s Liberation Day, a drone show calls for reunification
5. S. Korea voices ‘deep regret’ over Japan PM’s offering, lawmakers’ visit to war shrine
6. Colby says Asian allies must ‘pull their weight’ for ‘sustainable’ collective defense
7. Swap Around and Find Out: The New Rules of International Digital Economic Warfare
8. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un makes speech at meeting held in celebration of 80th anniversary of national liberation
9. Lee seeks support from diplomatic corps ahead of APEC hosting
10. South Korea to restore pact halting military activity on North Korea border
11. South Korea’s anti-American president is coming to Washington
12. Putin hails ‘heroic’ North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine in letter to Kim Jong-un
13. How Will Lee Jae-myung Approach the United States?
14. Three Decades On, the Korean Wave Continues to Build Momentum