10/17/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News:

1. U.S. Special Operations helicopters, B-52s near Venezuela expand Caribbean mission
2. Top U.S. Admiral Overseeing Caribbean Deployments to Step Down
3. Venezuela Mobilizes Troops and Militias as U.S. Military Looms Offshore
4. Trump Says He Will Meet With Putin in Budapest to Discuss End to Ukraine War
5. Russia’s Wartime Adaptation Against Ukraine
6. Microsoft: Russia, China increasingly using AI to escalate cyberattacks on the US
7. Why the U.S. Is Losing the Cognitive Competition
8. Forgotten history of the Wilbur J Cohen Building – There is so much more to the story than being home to VOA since 1954
9. Allies United Against China on Rare Earths
10. The military’s big gamble on small nuclear reactors
11. The Second Front: PRC Micro-Occupation in the Philippines, Part 2
12. Democratized Intelligence: How Open-Source Intelligence is Reshaping Asymmetric Advantage
13. Irregular Solutions for Irregular Threats: Maritime Lessons from Dutch Counterpiracy Operations in Colonial Indonesia
14. Finally, Japan is standing up for itself
15. Developing | China expels He Weidong, Miao Hua and 7 other generals from party and military
16. An Internet Shutdown Cuts Off Iranians From One Another, and the World
17. Why U.S. Strikes Against Drug Boats Matter
18. Trump threatens US military force in Gaza amid fragile ceasefire
19. Infantry brigades shift to mobile brigades in Army transformation
20. US military’s Libya outreach adds rung as rival sides to join special operations exercise
21. Russia Is Arming Drones With North Korean Cluster Weapons, Report Says
22. How to Build an Economic and Security Order That Works for America
23. Asia’s Trump Problem: The Region Lacks Leaders Who Connect With the U.S. President
24. A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
25. Poems About The Pentagon
26. I resigned from the military because of Trump

Korean News:

1. The Importance of Foreign Information Access in North Korea
2. The Respected Daughter Goes to China
3. Future Missile/Space Developments Presaged; WMD Possession Underscored
4. Kim Jong Un’s Apparent Last-Minute Beijing Visit
5. Microsoft: Russia, China increasingly using AI to escalate cyberattacks on the US (and north Korea)
6. Asia’s Trump Problem: The Region Lacks Leaders Who Connect With the U.S. President
7. Russia Is Arming Drones With North Korean Cluster Weapons, Report Says
8. North Korean soldiers are flying drones for Russia and directing strikes in Ukraine, Kyiv says
9. DAPA chief says China’s Hanwha sanctions to ‘clearly’ affect MASGA project
10. Defense chief says Osan Air Base raid did not require U.S. consultations
11. N. Korea operating 4 political prison camps with up to 65,000 detainees: report
12. N. Korea’s Kim vows to bolster bilateral ties in message to China’s Xi
13. N. Korea, Russia sign agreement on forestry cooperation
14. Industry minister, Lutnick meet to narrow gaps over Korea’s US$350 bln investment plan
15. N. Korea’s FM vows to strengthen ‘strategic, tactical’ cooperation with Russia