12/24/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
12.24.2025 at 05:39pm
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National Security News:
1. Opinion | Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Surprisingly Good for the World
2. Trump’s Tilt Toward Foreign Policy Shows No Sign of Slowing
3. China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule—and Is Trying to Tame It
4. As Trump upends US foreign policy, analysts see fresh openings for China
5. Why ‘relative stability’ in US-China ties is unlikely to last
6. Why China’s rapid military build-up is ‘hardly the whole story’
7. Report to Congress on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2025
8. Zelensky Proposes Demilitarized Zone in Eastern Ukraine as Way to Peace
9. US Military’s Southern Command Gets a Special Ops Boss
10. Inside the U.S. Ghostriders and Reapers Being Used to Strike Boats
11. Exclusive | U.S. Moves Troops and Additional Special- Operations Aircraft Into Caribbean
12. Can US leaders convince Americans that Taiwan is worth fighting for?
13. We Need More Than Just a Command Shakeup in the U.S. Military
14. The Military’s Social Media Purge
15. The 2025 Thailand-Cambodia Border Crisis: A Conflict in Search of a Cause
16. France’s War on Drugs: Contemporary Threats from Historical Perspectives
17. How Criminal Networks Launder Money Out of the United States
18. The End of Audacity? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Command
19. Understanding Hybrid Threats: Insights from the Belgian Cyber Force
20. With Great Power Comes Great Insecurity: Why Stronger States Are More Fearful Than Weaker Ones
21. The First U.S. Army Christmas: Washington and the Hessians
Korean News:
1. 
A Christmas Message of Hope and Reunion 
A Christmas Message of Hope and Reunion 2. S. Korea, U.S. agree to pursue stand-alone pact for cooperation over nuclear-powered subs
3. 2 N. Korean POWs in Ukraine express desire to defect to S. Korea in letter: activist
4. S. Korea moves to rename North Korean defectors as migrants
5. Stateless defectors fall through gaps in South Korea protections
6. Unification minister vows efforts to resolve separated families issue
7.Trump gifts White House gold key to Lee
8. Presidential office to be formally renamed Cheong Wa Dae on Monday
9. South Korean commercial rocket crashes shortly after launch in Brazil
10. Security Implications of the China-Russia-North Korea Triangle
11. ＜Interview with a North Korean Woman＞”It’s Annoying and Unbearable” Surveillance and Control Intensified Through Inminban… Registration Required Even for Going Out and Returning Home
12. N. Korea’s state media silent on birthday of leader Kim’s grandmother
13. N. Korea ramps up opening of regional factories ahead of key party congress
14. National Assembly passes anti-fake news bill after opposition’s filibuster
15. S. Korea holds regular defense drills around Dokdo this week: source
