11/21/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
11.21.2025 at 02:56pm
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National Security News:
1. The Web of Venezuelan Generals Accused of Fueling the Cocaine Trade
2. RC-135 Accompanied By Fighters Off Venezuela Testing Maduro’s Air Defenses: U.S. Official
3. Trump Peace Plan Demands Major Concessions From Ukraine
4. The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated by Sir Lawrence Freedman
5. Fatal Flaw: Ex-CIA Analyst Says Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Will Backfire, Poison US–Kyiv Ties
6. Opinion | Trump Says Arms Are Going to Taiwan
7. Japan’s Takaichi says she wants better Beijing ties but refuses to retract Taiwan comments
8. Is Beijing’s spat with Japan sending a message to US and allies over Taiwan?
9. Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
10. Recognizing the Domestic Use of Irregular Warfare Techniques to Consolidate Executive Power
11. Interview with Clinton Hinote Reimagining Forward Defense as a Multi-Domain “Hellscape”
12. Things were already grim for US farmers, then China tensions worsened – again
13. After a Tragedy in 2002, Special Forces Soldiers Learned That Armed Drones Are a Combat Necessity
14. Ballast Books Announces Hard Mind, Soft Heart: A Warfighter’s Battle for Truth, Brotherhood & the Soul of the SEAL Teams
15. British firm Kraken wins USSOCOM deal for new drone vessels
16. Most of the Air Force’s biggest programs will now be overseen by a 4-star under the deputy SecDef
17. The time to move ICBMs from the Air Force to the Army is now
18. The Case for Treating Drones as Ammunition
19. Winning the Tactical Reconnaissance-Strike Fight: Lessons from Centaur Squadron
20. Chance and Necessity: Evolving the Supporting Role of SOF to Cyber Operations
21. The Peril of Ousting Maduro
Korean News:
1. From North Korean labor camp to global campaign: Kenneth Bae’s push for Korean unification
2. Is Beijing’s spat with Japan sending a message to US and allies over Taiwan?
3. U.S. expert not ruling out possible change in USFK force posture in next 3 years
4. Defense, foreign ministries set up task forces to probe military, gov’t officials’ martial law involvement
5. Polish envoy voices ‘great concerns’ over N. Korea’s involvement in war against Ukraine
6. Punggye-ri’s Tunnel No. 3 ready for use, but no signs of imminent test
7. 17 South Koreans referred to prosecutors for sending leaflets toward North Korea
8. North Korea Executes Couple to Curb Private Business
9. ROK REQUESTS ATTACK BOAT, Greg Scarlatoiu, president and CEO of The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
10. N. Korea aims to expand mineral trade despite sanctions
11. North Korea continues MDL violations, silent on Seoul’s offer to hold talks
12. North Korea’s price freeze in Kangwon province disrupts local markets
13. Chinese embassy expresses dismay over U.S. envoy’s remarks on Seoul-Washington cooperation
14. Economic collapse forces parents to advise daughters against marriage
15. Kim Jong Un opens new power station aimed at fixing rural ‘electricity problem’
