12/29/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
12.30.2025 at 03:03am
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National Security News:
1. Inside America’s next information war
2. Trump Says the U.S. Attacked Venezuelan Docks Where Drugs Are Loaded Onto Boats
3. Trump Threatens New Military Action With Israel on Iran’s Missiles, Nuclear Program
4. See How a Chinese Attack on Taiwan Would Be Japan’s Problem
5. Assumptions – A Fatal Oversight
6. China stages military drills around Taiwan to warn ‘external forces’
7. A Shield Made up of Well-directed Blows: Clausewitz and the New Logic of America’s Counter-Narcotics Campaign
8. The Innovator’s Burden: Why the Military Must Find, Protect, and Unleash Its True Visionaries
9. Chemical and Biological Warfare during the Rhodesian Bush War
10. Russia Threatens to Toughen Its Stance on Ending the War in Ukraine
11. For Zelensky, Just Keeping Trump Talking Counts as a Win
12. Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
13. U.S. Pledges $2 Billion for U.N. Aid but Tells Agencies to ‘Adapt, Shrink, or Die’
14. New Pentagon report on China’s military notes Beijing’s progress on LLMs
15. Why Is the United States Drawn to War?
16. China hiding missiles on merchant ships for a Taiwan war
17. How Deepfakes Could Lead to Doomsday
Korean News:
1. USFK Commander: Alliance Modernization Beyond North Korea
2. CFC commander stresses South Korea’s expanding regional security role
3. Report: North Korean Money Launderer Transfers Funds to IRGC
4. Kim Jong-un Stresses Nuclear Artillery Revolution at Facility
5. Is Russian technology behind North Korea’s new nuclear submarine?
6. Full text of President Yoon Seok-yeol ‘final statement’
7. 5 senior military officers receive ‘severe’ disciplinary action over martial law involvement
8. Hanwha Aerospace to sign 5.6 tln-won Chunmoo export contract with Poland
9. US, ROK forces finish field training for summer drills, 4 months behind schedule
10. North Korean escapee group objects to Seoul’s proposal to ditch term ‘defector’
11. U.S. Forces Korea Commander: “South Korea is not merely a responder to threats on the Korean Peninsula… a central axis of peace in Northeast Asia”
12. Keynote Address to the Korea-U.S. Joint Policy Forum
