8/8/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.08.2025 at 11:28pm
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National Security News Content:
1. Putin Tells U.S. He’ll Halt War in Exchange for Eastern Ukraine
2. How Trump and Putin Reached a New Make-or-Break Moment on Ukraine
3. Ukrainians Face a Sophie’s Choice
4. Putin Has Already Lost in Ukraine—The Extent of That Loss Depends on What the West Does Next
5. The Case for the Atomic Bomb, 80 Years Later
6. Could the U.S. Have Saved Navalny?
7. Trump Orders Pentagon to Prepare to Target Latin American Drug Cartels
8. Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
9. Israel’s Plan to Expand War Raises Fears for Gazans, Hostages
10. Putin Briefs Leaders of China and India on Talks With U.S. on Ukraine
11. India’s Modi Left Soul-Searching After Failed Courtships of Xi and Trump
12. Taiwan Strained by 20% Tariffs, No Trade Deal and Political Uncertainty
13. Japan Says Trump to Correct ‘Extremely Regrettable’ Error in Tariff Order
14. New FM 3-05 Delivers on the Promise to Streamline & Integrate the U.S Army Special Operations Imperatives
15. Why the Far Right Hates Churchill
16. Special ops forces, intel community to team up on operational challenges in ‘data dense environments
17. Emerald Warrior proves AFSOC’s agile combat readiness
18. Ukraine, Modern War, and Lessons for the Pacific by Mick Ryan
19. The Anticorruption Angle
20. How to Resist a Dictator – What Belarus’s Democratic Opposition Reveals—and What It Needs to Win
21. Why Wars Don’t End Anymore
Korean News Content:
1. South Korea, US militaries will stage large-scale drills this month to address North Korean threats
2. The Variables of OPCON: The ‘Control Rod’ Logic in Today’s ROK-US Alliance
3. Not the Time to Transfer Wartime Control of Forces to South Korea
4. DPRK expanded loudspeaker network weeks before ROK dismantles its own
5. The Second North Korean Wave in Ukraine: What Next as Pyongyang’s Troops Arrive on Russia’s Front Lines?
6. Trump’s transactional diplomacy hangs heavy over upcoming South Korea summit
7. A New CRINK Axis of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea?
8. North Korea clamps down as Chinese visitors misuse business visas: Sources
9. Ask A North Korean: What is the function of the state run daily Rodong Sinmun?
10. South Korea set to decide whether to let Google Maps finally work properly
11. North Korea’s guide to going nuclear – How Kim Jong Un fortified his impoverished state.
12. Alliance modernization seeks to ensure credible deterrence on, ‘beyond’ Korean Peninsula: Pentagon
13. Gov’t discussing joint Seoul-Washington measures to build peace with N. Korea
14. S. Korea again postpones decision on Google’s map data transfer request amid U.S. pressure
15. South Korea must do much more to support the U.S. and defend itself
16. N. Korea’s silence is actually louder psychological warfare
