11/1/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News:

1. Will Trump’s Critical Minerals Blitz Pay Off?
2. Why Are China’s Generals So Quiet as Xi Purges Them?
3. The Latest Buzzy Tech Investment: Ukrainian Drones
4. Experts react: What does the Trump-Xi meeting mean for trade, technology, security, and beyond?
5. With China Truce, U.S. National Security Controls Now Appear Up for Negotiation
6. Trump Says He’s Not Planning Venezuela Strike
7. Putin Brandishes Menacing Nuclear Weapons as Talks With U.S. Falter
8. Xi Delivers Veiled Warning to Nations Not to Take the U.S.’s Side
9. NATO ally Estonia urges preparation for “different kind of war” with Putin
10. Beijing’s New Approach to Taiwan
11. Opinion | Zelensky Is Winning Trump Voters Over
12. Trump’s Pacific Pivot – OpEd
13. The U.S. Military’s Great Reboot to Fight a War Against China Has Arrived
14. Nvidia Uncertain if Return to China Is Closer After Trump-Xi Meeting
15. Confronting China’s pervasive maritime gray zone campaign
16. The West needs to draw the line on Russian, Chinese grey-zone provocations
17. The Trade War Couldn’t Change China’s Economy
18. General tells industry to bring more prototypes to help forces move at speed
19. China’s De-Americanization Strategy
20. As U.S. ramps up pressure, Venezuela pleads with Moscow and Beijing for help
21. Opinion | China’s trade bullying calls for an Article 5
22. White House to Announce Resumption of Auto Chip Shipments From China
23. Colin Gray, the RMA, and the Rise of Drone Warfare
24. Why the U.S. is losing the battle for hearts and minds
25. The Free World is Losing the Information War. Here’s How It Can Win.
26. We’ve Forgotten What ‘Soft Power’ Is
27. Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
28. FMS Reform — Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) Moving to DoD Acquisition
29. Dual-Theater Competition: How the US Avoids Being Stretched Thin and Wins Where It Matters

Korean News:

1. How North Korea outsmarts US intelligence agencies—and what they should do to adapt
2. North Korea says denuclearisation is unrealisable ‘pipe dream’ before China, South Korea summit
3. Lee Jae Myung crosses the Rubicon
4. The Korean Crisis Began in 1945, Not 1950 – OpEd
5. Nvidia Uncertain if Return to China Is Closer After Trump-Xi Meeting
6. Why the U.S. is losing the battle for hearts and minds
7. Lee, China’s Xi agree on efforts for peace on Korean Peninsula
8. Ending the Korean War: Interview With Former Deputy Commander of Pacific Command
9. Defense chiefs of S. Korea, U.S. meet at ASEAN defense forum ahead of key bilateral meeting
10. Lee says ‘no longer worried’ about S. Korea-Japan ties after summit with Takaichi
11. Lawmaker says China’s Xi responded positively to idea of K-pop concert in Beijing
12. Defense chiefs of S. Korea, Japan reaffirm trilateral security cooperation with U.S.
13. Trump gifts baseball bat and ball to President Lee, symbolizing U.S.-Korea bond
14. APEC leaders adopt Gyeongju Declaration for renewed regional cooperation in trade, AI, demographic changes
15. US LNG through Korean eyes: From game changer to global mainstay
16. Philippine President Discusses Submarines with Hanwha Ocean