8/29/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. America Must Rediscover Political Warfare: The Pen Dictates the Sword
2. Russia’s Deadliest Attack on Kyiv Since Trump-Putin Summit Damages EU Building
3. Israeli Troops Raid Site Deep Inside Syria, Damascus Says
4. China’s ‘Unforced Error’ in the South China Sea Could Spark a War
5. Dealing with Drones: Why Words Matter
6. Build–Broadcast–Bolster: A Strategic Framework for Middle Power Influence
7. Army bids adieu to ISR Task Force, stands up Strategy and Transformation Directorate
8. Spectacular Drone Strikes and the Future Sanctuary of the U.S. Homeland
9. Building a New Brain: Transforming Military Schoolhouses into AI Battle Labs
10. From Shield to Spear: How Golden Dome Points the Way toward Breaking China’s Kill Web
11. A Dozen Countries Drill in Indo-Pacific Exercises
12. The State Department laid them off, then it promoted them
13. Report spotlights tensions in Mali military over Wagner mercenaries
14. What to Do About “Mirror Life”?
15. Warnings From Weimar: Why Bargaining With Authoritarians Fails
16. Are Japan, South Korea, and Poland on the Verge of Getting Nuclear Weapons?
17. How many drones does it take to replace a destroyer?
18. DOD Establishes Joint Interagency Task Force to Deliver Affordable C-sUAS Capabilities to America’s Warfighters
19. Could Putin Be Overthrown?
Korean News Content:
1. Kim and Putin to Join Xi in Show of Unity at Beijing Military Parade
2. Unification First: Colonel David Maxwell on Human Rights, Information, and a Free Korea
3. Navigating the new normal: Strategic simultaneity, US Forces Korea flexibility, and alliance imperatives
4. Five questions (and expert answers) about where the US-South Korea alliance goes from here
5. What North Korea Learned From the Battlefields of Kursk
6. Trump Should Stay Out of South Korean Politics
7. With Russia’s help, North Korea expands its nuclear weapons capability
8. North Korea shuns denuclearization talks following first Trump-Lee summit
9. Kim Jong Un watches special forces drills, calls for supplying new sniper rifles
10. Hanwha to invest $5 billion to improve infrastructure at Philadelphia shipyard
11. US-ROK conclude 11 days of military drills that drew North Korea’s scorn12.
12. North Korean IT workers use AI to mask lack of skills, boost criminal schemes
13. Are Japan, South Korea, and Poland on the Verge of Getting Nuclear Weapons?
14. N. Korea’s Kim set for debut on multilateral diplomatic stage in China; focus on possible 3-way summit with Putin, Xi
15. FM Cho notes ‘close attention’ to be paid to N.K. leader’s planned China visit
16. U.S. can have USFK ‘strategic flexibility’ while ensuring extended deterrence for S. Korea: Sen. Kim
