4/24/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. Xi Is Ratcheting Up China’s Pain Threshold for a Long Fight With Trump
2. China Bets Trump Will Back Down on Tariffs
3. Russia Pummels Kyiv, Prompting Rare Rebuke From Trump
4. Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Has ‘No Allegiance’ in Russia-Ukraine War
5. For Russia, the U.S. peace deal could be a way of weakening Ukraine
6. Trump Is Facing Six Wars, and He’s Losing All of Them by Hal Brands
7. In defense of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
8. ‘He gets him what he needs’: Hegseth’s new favorite adviser helped set up Signal on one of secretary’s computers at Pentagon
9. U.S. Navy Plans to Order U.S. Army Landing Ship for the Marine Corps
10. Would De-Dollarization Threaten The Dominance Of The US Dollar?
11. This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to Give
12. Is a Military Coup Unfolding at the Pentagon?
13. Trump Is Losing Asia – An incoherent policy is speeding Beijing’s rise.
14. Critical Followership: Thinking, Failing, and Leading
15. Order Without America – How the International System Can Survive a Hostile Washington
16. Trump is a revolutionary. Will he succeed?
17. Calm down: the ‘geopolitical crisis’ narrative is overblown
18. Amid a trade war, Xi Jinping may be purging China’s armed forces
19. The Real Lesson of SignalGate
20. Out Thinking Our Adversaries by Mick Ryan
21. Trump Can Protect the Post-WWII World Order or Destroy It
22. The Pentagon Can’t Be Run Like a Business
23. Polygraph Threats, Leaks and Infighting: Pentagon Chaos Rattles Hegseth
23. Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on the Conclusion of Service of DOD Advisory Committee Members
24. The fight to restore VOA continues. China hopes the agency loses.
Korean News Content:
1. South Korea Indicts Another Ex-President, Leaving No Leader This Century Free of Scandal
2. South Korea: Recognizing Yoon’s Achievements
3. U.S. Urges Japan and South Korea to Commit to $44 Billion Alaska Gas Project
4. North Korea: Revisionist Ambitions and the Changing International Order
5. North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Facilities: What We Learned from KCNA’s Images
6. North Korea nuclear program “completely off the charts”: UN watchdog
7. South Korea says DeepSeek transferred user data to China and the U.S. without consent
8. Treasury secretary calls high-level trade talks with S. Korea ‘very successful’
9. S. Korea, U.S. to hold regular KIDD defense talks at Pentagon next week: spokesperson
10. New video confirms North Korea provided M1991 240mm rocket launchers to Russia to fight against Ukraine
11. ‘Entire Platoon’ – Ukrainian Special Forces Eliminate 25 North Koreans in Close Combat in Russia’s Kursk
12. Korea gears up for June 3 election amid political polarization, presidential power frays
13. #ROK: NAIVE HOPE. DAVID MAXWELL. GORDON CHANG. Apr 23, 6:10 PM
14. A Stress Test For South Korea’s Democracy: Conservatism’s Authoritarian Relapse – OpEd
