5/22/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News Content:

1. The Fortress That China Built for Its Battle with America
2. The End of Extended Deterrence in Asia?
3. How China co-opted the green movement
4. Killing of Embassy Staffers Stokes Israeli Fears of Increasingly Hostile World
5. Washington Deserved a Downgrade
6. Call the Trump Doctrine Mater-Realism
7. Why China’s Fighter Jets Should Worry the US and Taiwan
8. Sig Sauer’s XM7 Rifle Gets Army’s Seal Of Approval Despite Controversy
9. Pentagon accepts Qatari jet for Air Force One
10. 10. Cots, MREs, Per Diem: Army Offers New Details for Soldiers Sent to Massive D.C. Military Parade
11. A Playbook for Industrial Policy: What Washington Can Learn From CHIPS
12. Maritime Domain Awareness or Silent War?
13. Autonomous Weapon Systems: No Human-in-the-Loop Required, and Other Myths Dispelled
14. The Map and the Territory: ISIS’s Hedgehog Leadership
15. India’s Wake-Up Call: Why US Defense Reform Must Match the Speed of Modern War
16. Coast Guard suspects Kinmen raft intrusions timed with Lai’s 1st anniversary
17. Forget China’s navy, Chinese small boats landings on Taiwan are a new source of concern
18. The Value of an Asian Tinder Box

Korean News Content:

1. Rubio says appointment process underway to find ‘right person’ for N.K. human rights envoy
2. Kim Jong Un’s fury after watching North Korea’s new navy destroyer crippled in botched launch
3. ‘Serious’ accident at North Korea warship launch ceremony
4. Kim Jong-un furious as North Korea warship partly ‘crushed’ in launch gone wrong
5. Reviving Sunshine: Lee Jae-Myung’s Path To Korean Peace
6. ‘Silence is complicity,’ warns activist who fled DPR Korea
7. North Korean defectors urge the UN to hold the country’s leader accountable for rights abuses
8. Korean Church keeps up quest for reconciliation between peninsula’s two nations
9. South Korea’s Defining Vote: The 2025 Presidential Election
10. South Korea presidential hopefuls back US alliance, differ on adversary strategy
11. Art of the deal: Why Trump could struggle to bring North Korea back to talks
12. Workers scoff at ‘worthless’ propaganda materials as N. Korea demands impossible production goals
13. TIME TO MODERNIZE ROK MILITARY POLITICAL TRAINING
14. Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People of 2025