5/20/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News Content:

1. Will Trump Blow Up the National Security Council?
2. Judge says Trump lacked authority to dismantle U.S. Institute of Peace
3. America’s Fiscal Situation Threatens the Good Mood on Wall Street
4. Trump-Putin Call Yields No Breakthrough on Ukraine Cease-Fire
5. Trump Must Be Globally Involved To ‘Make America Great Again,’ Says Conservative Pundit Clifford May
6. Why Democracy Is in Retreat
7. The hand that feeds: The unseen cost of dismantling foreign aid
8. The Future of Nuclear Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific
9. Rubio, the Trump Doctrine, and the State Department Reorg
10. Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice.
11. China Expanding Haifa Port, Endangering Israeli and American Security
12. Constructing Instability in Conflict: The Failures of U.S. Reconstruction
13. China’s Expanding Influence in Bangladesh: Strategic Debt and Naval Ambitions
14. A Three Step Solution To Rebuild the Marine Corps
15. How China recruits its spies in the U.S.
16. The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
17. Trump’s Ukraine peace push is built on three illusions
18. Why the Nuclear Gravity Bomb Has Gotten a Reboot
19. What If Our Assumptions About a War with China Are Wrong?
20. The Taiwan Tightrope: Deterrence Is a Balancing Act, and America Is Starting to Slip
21. The New Price of Statehood: Trump Is a Mixed Blessing for the World’s Separatists

Korean News Content:

1. Police request arrest warrant for reporter over ’99 Chinese spies’ article
2. S. Korea, U.S., Japan hold talks to reaffirm ‘unwavering’ commitment to trilateral cooperation
3. 1st indigenous KF-21 fighter jet enters final assembly phase
4. UN General Assembly Should Act on North Korea
5. The Future of Nuclear Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific
6. Civic groups urge post-election gov’t to halt leaflet, loudspeaker campaigns against N. Korea
7. This Technology Could Be a Game-Changer for North Korea
8. ‘This is the mafia’ — How North Korea structures its IT workers like an organized crime syndicate
9. Japan arms itself with hi-tech US jet fighters in face of North Korea missiles
10. [Market Magnifier] Soldiers starving without their mother’s ‘phone money’?
11. “UN North Korea Human Rights and Weapons Investigation Organization Must Be Established”
12. Erasing unity: N. Korea’s dangerous symbolic shift
13. N. Korea intensifies border security amid ‘complex’ international developments
14. Self-reliance in healthcare: N. Korean hospitals manufacture traditional remedies as drug crisis persists
15. “The next Korean government must continue the development of the ‘nuclear consultation group’”
16. Lee Jae-myung on track for landslide win in presidential race, polls show