12/18/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
12.18.2025 at 02:26pm
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National Security News:
1. Modern Generals and Selfish Service
2. Putin Warns He Will Achieve Aims in Ukraine Through Negotiation or War
3. What Is Irregular Warfare? (Podcast with Philip Wasielewski and Mark Grdovic)
4. The difference between Special Forces and special operations (and why words matter)
5. Trump Ramps Up Pressure on the Dictator
6. The Philippines’ long battle against Islamist extremism is back in the spotlight following Bondi attack
7. Ukraine obliterates entire Russian column in ‘kill box’ manoeuvre
8. The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square
9. Finding the Signal within the Noise: What Information Warriors Need to Know About Human Pattern Recognition.
10. Stubborn or Circumspect? A Perspective on President Sheinbuam’s Refusal of U.S Military Intervention in México
11. US Approves $11 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan, Drawing China’s Ire
12. Opinion | Don’t Stop at a Single Oil Tanker
13. Why U.S. and Chinese satellites are ‘dogfighting’ in orbit
14. Why China’s rapid military build-up is ‘hardly the whole story’
15. China FM Wang Yi reaffirms Beijing’s backing for Venezuela as US pressure grows
16. China’s military accuses Japan of raising ‘space arms race’ risk
17. Weak in Battle, Dangerous in Resistance: Venezuela’s Military Preparedness and Possible Responses to U.S. Action
18. What Happened to Transnational Terrorism? – Modern War Institute
19. Russian Maritime Sabotage: From Subcomponent of Special Operations to Evolving Form of Irregular Warfare
20. The Allies After America: In Search of Plan B
21. China’s Long Economic War: How Beijing Builds Leverage for Indefinite Competition
22. Troops will receive $1,776 checks before Christmas, Trump announces
Korean News:
1. U.N. Command says Armistice grants it authority over access to DMZ
2. UNC objects to South Korea bill on civilian DMZ access
3. S Korea Wi says he discussed separate U.S. deal for nuclear submarine
4. South Korea says U.S. follow-up talks on summit fact sheet differ
5. DMZ demarcation line is not the border despite North Korean claims: UNC official
6. S. Korea calls for China’s role in fostering conditions to resume talks with N. Korea
7. Seoul is ‘sitting out’ while North Korea learns war, Ukrainian journalist says
8. Defense ministry aims to conclude U.S. talks on nuclear-powered sub fuel within 2 yrs
9. North Korea-China trade rockets to six-year high, months after Kim-Xi summit
10. Alabuga: The Latest Destination for North Korea’s Drone Ambitions
11. Succession at the Crossroads: Scenarios for North Korea’s Future
12. Lee eyes repatriation of independence fighters’ remains in China as possible summit agenda
13. Pro-Pyongyang paper takes note of omission of N. Korea from U.S. security strategy report
14. N. Korea bristles at Japan’s reported review of 3 non-nuclear principles
