11/29/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News:

1. Codifying Irregular Warfare—Inside the Pentagon’s new DoD Instruction 3000.07
2. Maria Ressa at UNGA 80th anniv: ‘Information integrity is the mother of all battles’
3. New Peace Push Offers Clues to Fundamental Question: What Does Putin Want?
4. What Taiwan can and can’t learn from Ukraine
5. D.C. Ambush Exposes Risks for National Guard on Capital’s Crime Patrols
6. Normalising disinformation: China shifts to overt operations against Japan
7. China and Japan share blame for crisis, but not equally
8. Opinion | Ukraine Corruption and U.S. Interests
9. Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
10. Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
11. Russia says leak of Witkoff call recording is unacceptable, amounts to hybrid warfare
12. Zelensky’s Top Aide Resigns as Corruption Probe Deepens
13. Rubio Expected To Skip NATO Talks Next Week: Sources
14. Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
15. Counterterrorism officials vetted Guard shooting suspect before he entered U.S.
16. Taiwan names US-educated official new vice defence minister as part of reform push

Korean News:

1. Is a War with North Korea Coming Soon?
2. The Variables of OPCON: What ‘Conditions’?
3. UN deems Western sanctions on Iran, China, North Korea as int’l human rights violations
4. Seoul Rallies Mark Anniversary With Dueling Demands
5. North Korean Cafe Sells Labubu Vouchers for $100 in Starbucks Knockoff
6. Hong Kong fire raises alarms over Korea’s high-rise safety measures
7. Foreign residents in S. Korea top 2.8 mln for first time in Oct.
8. Exclusive: Alaska governor says Korea to join $44B LNG project, binding deal set for December
9. N. K Expands Chinese-Made Surveillance Cameras with Facial Recognition System: Workers’ Face Photos Continuously Taken- “Now They Track Everywhere We Go”
10. Large-Scale Vehicle Smuggling Between North Korea and China: Structure and Background (1) Heading to Hyesan, the Hub of Vehicle Smuggling
11. Winter warfare preparations expose North Korea’s chronic military supply crisis
12. From Kim dynasty to battlefield martyrs: North Korea’s expanding ‘eternal life’ propaganda
13. S. Korea’s plan to scrap N. Korean human rights center risks abandoning victims for political expediency
14. From fairways to firepower: Inside North Korea’s camouflaged missile program