10/29/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
10.29.2025 at 01:45pm
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National Security News:
1. Trump, Xi to Discuss Lowering China Tariffs for Fentanyl Crackdown
2. Trump Tells Asia Allies: It’s Your Turn to Boost Military Spending
3. Trump outmaneuvers China in the battle for rare earth power
4. US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say
5. The U.S. Army prepares to withdraw its new Typhon missile launch system from Japan
6. Trump’s Asia Gambit: Can the US Really Overtake China?
7. Trump Expects to Sign China Trade Deal at Xi Summit
8. After Demolishing the U.S.-China Relationship, Trump Is Rebuilding It His Way
9. Washington’s Oil Dilemma Returns: How to Hurt Moscow Without Raising Gas Prices
10.The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China
11. Trump Hails Golden Era in Japan Relations
12. Setting The Force: 10 Steps for Resolving The Special Forces “Identity Crisis”
13. Why Xi and Trump are set to talk in Busan, away from South Korea’s Apec events
14. Israel Says Cease-Fire Is Back on After Gaza Strikes
15. America Needs to Make Its Own Chips. James Proud Says He Knows How.
16. Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West?
17. How Trump will avoid falling into Xi’s trap, according to his China adviser
18. Which service did best in the military recruiting boom? The numbers are in
19. Is China’s Near Monopoly in Rare Earths Really a Chokepoint in the Global Economy?
20. The ‘New Normal’ Is Not Deglobalization, It’s Reglobalization
21. Ukrainian forces say small Russian infiltration teams are increasingly appearing out of nowhere and sowing chaos in their lines
22. Allied shipbuilding is Asia’s next strategic supply chain
23. 1st US heavy rare earths separation facility planned in Louisiana
24. The Military-Narrational Complex – What Stories Do in an Age of Conflict
25. Structure Trumps Agency in the U.S.-China Relationship – Why the Competition is Here to Stay
Korean News:
1. Trump Tells Asia Allies: It’s Your Turn to Boost Military Spending
2. Trump’s Asia Gambit: Can the US Really Overtake China?
3. Amazon Web Services Plans Additional $5 Billion AI Investment in South Korea
4. Trump’s Desperate Attempts to Meet Kim Jong Un Just Majorly Backfired
5.Trump arrives in South Korea, says Kim Jong Un meeting won’t happen
6. A call for true peace — not a deal that forsakes reunification
7. The Disappearance of APEC’s Symbol in Gyeongju (ROK/US Alliance and Kim Jong Un)
8. China, South Korean vessels in 15-hour Yellow Sea stand-off last month, report reveals
9. Why Xi and Trump are set to talk in Busan, away from South Korea’s Apec events
10. Pragmatism with Purpose: South Korea’s Opportunity to Lead in the Indo-Pacific
11. Allied shipbuilding is Asia’s next strategic supply chain
12. S. Korea, U.S. clinch deal on details of investment pledge
13. S. Korea’s push for nuclear-powered submarines gains traction with Lee-Trump summit
14. Korean auto industry relieved by U.S. tariff deal; shipbuilders reaffirm key roles in investment pledge
15. Trump says he and N.K. leader could not ‘work out timing’ for meeting
16. Top diplomats of S. Korea, U.S., Japan hold talks at APEC gathering: Seoul
17. Editorial: South Korea’s Security at Stake in Trump’s Nobel Pursuit
18. Trump says he will ‘work very hard with Kim Jong Un’ to achieve Korean peace
