8/16/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.16.2025 at 09:29pm
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National Security News Content:
1. Trump Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Putin. He Got Little in Return.
2. Who Was in the Room for Trump-Putin Meeting
3. The Palantir Mafia Behind Silicon Valley’s Hottest Startups
4. OPINION: The Flashy Trump-Putin Summit Without Ukraine Was a Rehearsal for Betrayal
5. Live Updates: Trump Backs Putin’s Route for Talks, Dashing Ukraine’s Hopes for Swift Cease-Fire
6. How the Trump-Putin Summit Signals a Return to Imperial Thinking
7. Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it
8. Why Russia Sold Alaska to the U.S.
9. A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
10. China dependence poses existential risk to US universities
11. ‘Economic Defense Unit’: How the U.S. Military Wins in the ‘Gray Zone’
12. Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
13. China Is Still Afraid of Losing World War II
14. What Was the Trump-Putin Meeting Even About?
15. Clouds Over China: A Challenge to Intelligence Gathering
16. One Belt, One Road, One Chilean Headache
17. Trump Expresses Gratitude For Hillary Clinton’s Nobel Peace Prize Nod Ahead Of Putin Summit
18. Trump Tells Europeans He Is Open to U.S. Security Guarantees in Ukraine
19. Iron Rhine strategic railway chugs back to life to counter Russia
20. Taiwan and the limits of American power
21. Trump to meet Zelensky on Monday after “difficult” post-summit call
22. This World-Renowned Negotiator Says Trump’s Secret Weapon Is Empathy
Korean News Content:
1. The Third Munich: Great Powers, Dictators, and the Danger to the Korean Peninsula
2. Once Seen as Divisive, South Korea’s New Leader Tries for Charming
3. Kim Jong-un turns to Moscow as Lee Jae-myung seeks North Korea dialogue
4. US lawmakers condemn China for violating rights of North Koreans in the country
5. ‘Not the next China’: India offers Korea strategic steel partnership
6. Seoul’s new policy road map endorses OPCON transfer, peace with North Korea
7. China surpasses U.S. in investment pledges to Korea in bid to bypass U.S. tariffs
8. Lee urges patience with North, trust with Japan
9. [Lee Byung-jong] Is Lee-Trump bromance possible?
10. ‘Economic Defense Unit’: How the U.S. Military Wins in the ‘Gray Zone’
11. Putin’s Secret Weapon for Ukraine War: An ‘Army’ of North Koreans
12. China Is Still Afraid of Losing World War II
13. The First Lee-Trump Summit: Addressing the North Korea Issue
14. US expert: Lee-Trump meeting on the 25th could mark a major turning point for the ROK-US alliance
15. N. Korea teachers find summer “vacation” busier than school year
