10/30/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News:

1. DoDI 3000.07: New policy for Irregular Warfare
2. Driving PME Modernization: How CGSC is Leading the Army’s Educational Transformation
3. Trump Meets With Xi, Declares Immediate Cut to Tariffs
4. Trump Says U.S. Will Begin Testing Nuclear Weapons
5. How China Enables Russia’s Military
6. Israel Accuses Hamas of Playing a Macabre Game With Hostage Bodies
7. Trump and Xi Ease Off the Trade War, but New Nuclear Threat Brings a Chill
8. The US draws down some troops on NATO’s eastern flank
9. The Shadow of October 7th: Peacekeeping (In)Effectiveness in a World of Evolving Conflict
10. A Response to Sergey Lavrov, or Why the Budapest Memorandum is the Key and the Only Possible Platform for Restoring the System of International Law and Legal Order. The alternative is an inevitable slide into a Third World War
11. China’s military may discard its rigid command structure, report warns
12. Leaked memo details National Guard plan for a ‘quick reaction force’ in US cities
13. As Trump Weighs Sale of Advanced A.I. Chips to China, Critics Sound Alarm
14. Special Operations Command Pacific undergoing first AI boot camp this week
    15. Hegseth says US Forces Japan ready for next phase of reorganization amid China threat
15. US missiles stationed in Philippines can reach China: official
16. Pentagon removes key protections for civilian workers, moves to fire with ‘speed and conviction’
17. The American Military Officer After Liberalism
18. America and China Can Have a Normal Relationship
19. Trump’s ‘amazing’ bargain with Xi turns out a dud

Korean News:

1. A House Divided Cannot Endure: The Crisis of Human Rights in Korea Today
2. Trump says South Korea will be able to build nuclear-powered submarine
3. Feted as a Peacemaker in South Korea, Trump Finds Purpose for Overtures to Kim Jong-un
4. A new dawn for alliance
5. Trump Has Likened Himself to a King. South Korea Gave Him a Crown.
6. Trump gives blessing to ROK nuclear subs, and expands a front with North Korea
7. Both North Korean POWs in Ukraine now say they want to defect to South: NGO
8. Top diplomats of US, ROK, Japan vow to work for North Korea’s denuclearization
9. Pyongyang enacts sweeping transportation controls that violate international human rights standards
10. Economic hardship pushes North Korean husbands to share household burdens
11. Adviser: U.S.-North Korea Summit Conditions Not Matured
12. Beyond tariffs: New strategic convergence of Korea-U.S. alliance
13. Presidential office welcomes Trump’s approval of S. Korea’s nuclear-powered submarine bid
14. Presidential office says semiconductor tariffs part of deal with U.S.
15. China’s Xi begins 3-day visit to S. Korea in first trip to country in 11 yrs