12/19/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
12.19.2025 at 03:19pm
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National Security News:
1. Trump Tackles Concerns Over Taiwan Strategy With Massive Weapons Deal
2. Believe it or not, the US doesn’t have an Indo-Pacific warfighting HQ | The Strategist
3. Trump Admin to Radically Reshape Military: Report
4. Today’s Opium Wars: The Unrestricted Warfare Playbook in the U.S. Illicit Drug Market
5. Understanding Irregular Warfare for Medical Action
6. The party’s AI: How China’s new AI systems are reshaping human rights
7. Is Philippines being unfairly targeted in Australia’s Bondi Beach shooting?
8. How Australia’s counter-interference experience can help the Philippines
9. China cuts US Treasury holdings to lowest level since 2008 amid debt ceiling fears
10. China still targeting US-based researchers for ‘malign’ purposes, lawmakers warned
11. EU Commits to a $105 Billion Loan to Ukraine—but Without Russian Assets
12. U.S. Clamps Down on Investment in Chinese Tech Companies
13. If War Returns to Gaza, Israel Should Try Counterinsurgency
14. The Quantum Arms Race
15. Military Welcomes $1,776 ‘Warrior Dividends’
16. Winning the long game: Sustaining sea power as our enduring advantage (From the CNO)
17. Special operators seek larger ranges for electronic warfare and drone development and training
18. Review of Special Operations and National Security: Policies, Strategies, and Tactics by Ben Gans
19. Shallow Waters, Big Lessons: What the Falklands War Reveals About Submarine Warfare
20. Latin America’s Revolution of the Right
21. The Depopulation Panic: What Demographic Decline Really Means for the World (Review Essay)
22. China warns of rising war risk after historic US arms sale to Taiwan
Korean News:
1. Are Japan and South Korea Poised for a Historic Breakthrough? An Unlikely Partnership Could Allow Tokyo and Seoul to Counter China
2. Lee says South Koreans won’t become ‘commies’ from reading North Korean media
3. Kim Jong Un opens more new regional factories, promising a ‘socialist paradise’
4. What AUKUS teaches Seoul about nuclear-powered submarines
5. Believe it or not, the US doesn’t have an Indo-Pacific warfighting HQ
6. North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location
7. USFK commander says DMZ should not become ‘politicized,’ amid bill to ease access
8. Panmunjom tours will no longer enter blue buildings on North Korea border: UNC
9. S. Korea unification ministry’s bid to lead North Korea policy raises U.S. friction concerns
10. Seoul’s Unification Ministry aims for ‘peaceful coexistence’ with North Korea in 2026 plan
11. Expert says nuclear submarines are industrial strategy, not a budget drain
12. HD Korea Shipbuilding outlines tech roadmap with MIT-led maritime consortium
13. UN General Assembly adopts resolution slamming North Korean human rights abuses
14. North Korean crypto theft hits new high in 2025 on back of Bybit heist: Reports
15. Lee calls for preemptive efforts to reduce tensions with N. Korea
16. Unification minister pins hopes on Trump’s planned visit to China for engagement with N. Korea
17. Introducing the Korean Regional Review
