12/25/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
12.25.2025 at 07:06pm
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National Security News:
1. The Last Gasp of Peace: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Modern Profession of Arms
2. Fried Chicken And Family-Xmas In The Ardennes by Keith Nightingale
3. China Developing Options to Threaten Taiwan With ‘Brute Force,’ Pentagon Says
4. Venezuela’s Maduro using U.S. military threat to crack down on dissent
5. Six Months After War, Israel Warns It Could Strike Iran Again
6. India Is on a Himalayan Building Spree to Prepare for a Clash With China
7. Dien Bien Phu: Lessons in Strategic Empathy
8. Algorithimic Fratricide: When Artificial Intelligence Bias Becomes a Battlefield Liability
9. Why Russia Is Likely to Reject the New U.S.-Ukrainian Peace Plan
10. The Winners and Losers of Trump’s New Foreign Policy
11. Why China, a One-Party State, Is Backing Elections in This Country
12. AI Use in Terrorist Plots and Attacks Surges in 2025
13. Modeling the Earth with AI is Now a Strategic Intelligence Imperative
14. Invoking History: Xi Jinping’s Challenge to Okinawan Sovereignty and the US-Japan Alliance
15. China-US: A Rivalry Too Entangled to Decouple
16. Report to Congress on Potential Implications of the National Defense Strategy
17. Georgetown Philosophy Suspends PhD Admissions for Fall 2026 – Daily Nous
Korean News:
1. This War-era Humanitarian Rescue Story Undercuts North Korean Propaganda
2. Japan faced tough U.S. demands in 1994 North Korea nuke crisis
3. Kim Jong Un unveils ‘nuclear-powered’ submarine, criticizes US-ROK cooperation
4. N. Korea says U.S. nuclear-powered sub’s entry into S. Korea poses grave security threat
5. High-level North Korean defector reports top official was executed by burning
6. Kim Ju-ae’s Rising Public Profile Signals North Korean Succession Preparations
7. N. Korea’s Kim oversees test-firing of new anti-air missiles in East Sea
8. N. Korea’s Kim warns Seoul’s nuclear-powered submarine plan will ‘worsen instability’
9. Kim receives New Year’s message from Putin that hails ‘heroic’ dispatch of N. Korean troops in war against Ukraine
10. What is Happening to North Korea’s Jangmadang Free Markets?
11. [Commentary] Trump, U.S.-China Relations, and the Korean Peninsula
12. The Return of Factional Conflict in South Korea’s Foreign Policy
13. Former Trump security adviser decries S. Korean parliament’s scrutiny of Coupang over data leak
14. S. Korea eyes greater autonomy in alliance amid U.S. calls to bolster defense capabilities
15. Lee’s approval rating slips 3 points to 59 pct in latest poll
