7/26/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News Content:

1. Resilience and Resistance: Interdisciplinary Lessons in Competition, Deterrence, and Irregular Warfare (to include north Korea)
2. Taiwan’s Recall Vote and Its Implications
3. All 24 KMT lawmakers, Hsinchu mayor survive recall votes
4. Inside TSMC, the $1 Trillion Ghost Foundry Behind Nvidia’s Crown
5. The New Chips Designed to Solve AI’s Energy Problem
6. Washington Is Jumping Into Rare Earths. Investors Have Run the Other Way.
7. Washington Struggles to Rein In an Emboldened Israel
8. Gaza’s Aid Crisis Helps Only Hamas
9. No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say
10. The Pentagon Gets Serious About Drones
11. China’s No-Exit Plan for Foreigners
12. A Clash Over a Promotion Puts Hegseth at Odds With His Generals
13. China proposes new global AI cooperation organisation
14. China after Communism: Preparing for a Post-CCP China
15. Xi Jinping’s War on Dinner Is Hurting China’s Economy
16. Microwaves Against the Swarm: A New Phase in US Counter-Drone Strategy.
17. What China really wants for Russia and Ukraine
18. Some Priorities for the Next NDAA
19. Putin may be miscalculating Trump’s resolve on Ukraine
20. Does China really pose an existential threat to America?
21. Pentagon Risks Falling Behind in AI Influence and Info Ops
22. US-led forces kill senior IS leader in Syria
23. Media and information literacy in the disinformation age
24. Why the Revolution Never Ends (Marxist that is)
25. A timeless Chinese game is hooking people across D.C. and the nation
26. The Most-Taught Books in American Classrooms Have Barely Changed in 30 Years
27. 2‘Monopoly X’ Review: The Board Game Gambit (WWII POWs)

Korean News Content:

1. United States Disrupts North Korea Revenue Generation, Offering Rewards of Up to $15 Million
2. Resilience and Resistance: Interdisciplinary Lessons in Competition, Deterrence, and Irregular Warfare
3. Trump remains open to dialogue with Kim to achieve ‘fully denuclearized’ N. Korea: White House
4. N. Korea set to celebrate 72nd anniversary of armistice signing
5. S. Korea, U.S. to continue trade talks before Aug. 1 deadline: presidential office
6. South Korea seeks mutually agreeable US trade package as Aug 1 tariff deadline looms
7. Top diplomats of S. Korea, U.S. likely to hold talks July 31: sources
8. High-level meetings set for next week as Aug. 1 tariff deadline nears
9. Industry minister ends 2-day tariff talks with Lutnick without results
10. U.S. continues to have ‘productive’ talks with S. Korea to reduce ‘unfair’ trade barriers: White House
11. Seoul’s top trade officials meet Lutnick, stress need to reach tariff deal before Aug. 1
12. U.S. takes flurry of steps to disrupt N. Korea’s illicit revenue generation
13. Business leaders warn of tariff-regulation double bind
14. U.S.–Japan trade deal faces dispute over terms
15. Tariffs and regulation push Korean firms to brink
16. Back to training in South Korea’s reserve forces
17. Korea–US ties require sincere and balanced engagement
18. Vanity and the North Korea Watcher
19. Why Korea is cooler than China
20. When North Korean refugees want to return
21. Is Kim Jong Un a Harry Potter Fan?