10/28/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News:

1. Trump’s Big Tariff Task in Asia Is to Close the Deal
2. Everything You Should Know About Trump’s Upcoming Meeting with Xi
3. America Doesn’t Have Enough Weapons for a Major Conflict. These Workers Know Why.
4. Is the U.S. Losing in Vietnam? Russia, North Korea and China Are Gaining.
5. Putin Is Slowly Losing Control of the Ukraine War
6. US Army officer’s death in Dhaka raises questions amid shifting political winds
7. Norway: Russian Arctic Nukes Targeting America
8. Making Waves: Looking Beyond Today’s Illusory ‘Icebreaker Gap’ and Troubled PSC Program to a Cheap, Quiet, and Plentiful Polar Sub Fleet for Tomorrow
9. Trump’s Domestic Pressures for a Potential War in Venezuela
10. Venezuela Says It Captured ‘Mercenaries’ Working With CIA
11. The world is headed for re-globalization not de-globalization, as ‘coalitions of the willing’ emerge, Mastercard chair and former USTR official says
12. Poland Signs Palantir, Anduril Deals Amid Record Army Spending
13. Russia Aims Drone Attacks at Civilians, a War Crime, U.N. Inquiry Says
14. Opinion | Xi Gives Trump a Taiwan Test
15. Opinion | Asia Gets the Trump Treatment
16. China Pushes to Silence Victims of African Mining Disaster
17. The CRINK: Inside the new bloc supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine
18. The State of the Axis of Resistance: Assessing Risks and Opportunities for the United States
19. Using local advantage: how small forces can overcome insurmountable odds
20. The Case for a Multilateral Trade Organization Without America
21. Ron Paul: The Rubio Doctrine, Neocons Are Back – OpEd
22. Is Europe Too Soft to Fight?
23. From Front Lines to Factories: Embedding Industry in US Army Units to Accelerate Combat Iteration
24. 24. Toward a Taiwan Truce – How Trump and Xi Can Pull Back From the Brink
25. The New Eurasian Order – America Must Link Its Atlantic and Pacific Strategies
26. Does the US military need a Cyber Force?
27. Winning the Innovation Race: Why America’s Allies Are the Key to Beating Beijing

Korean News:

1. It’s time to form a Japan-South Korea military alliance
2. Will Trump Meet Kim Jong-un Again? He’s Very Open to the Idea.
3. A Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un Meeting Might Be a ‘Meaningless’ Summit
4. As Trump seeks another meeting with Kim Jong Un, it’s not 2019 anymore
5. ‘Make American Shipbuilding Great Again’: Korea leans into shipbuilding as it woos Trump
6. Trump greeted with hypersonic missile threat at Seoul APEC
7. North Korea and Russia blame ‘aggressive’ US-ROK alliance for tensions: Lavrov
8. Trump, Takaichi reaffirm US-Japan defense ties aboard American aircraft carrier
9. Trump tells families of Japanese abducted by North Korea that US is ‘with them’
10. What the world lost when North Korea’s doors swung closed
11. Presidential Office Prepares Gyeongju Golden Crown for Trump
12. President Lee Names Lee Hae-chan as PUAC Senior Vice Chair
13. Trump’s Trip to Pyongyang?
14. Trump renews call for Kim meeting, but North Korea remains silent
15. News of North Korean soldier’s defection spreads quietly along China border
16. S. Korea, U.S. not discuss agenda related to possible Kim-Trump meeting: official
17. S. Korea, U.S., Japan arranging trilateral talks among top diplomats during APEC: sources
18. Industry minister holds 2 rounds of virtual talks with U.S. counterpart on $350 bln investment deal: sources
19. Why Committee for Human Rights in North Korea must be funded — now more than ever