Small Wars Journal

8/10/8021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Tue, 08/10/2021 - 8:52am

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:


1. Biden to Approve Austin's Request to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Mandatory for Service Members
2. Austin Seeks Presidential Approval for Mandatory Troop Vaccinations by Mid-September
3.  Pentagon chief under fire for withholding information about deadly Kenya attack
4. U.S. Special Forces conduct joint training with once-controversial Japanese Special Ops
5. British special forces in Yemen, hunting for group that struck Mercer Street tanker
6. Joe Biden Should Follow George Washington's Lead and 'Inoculate All the Troops’
7. Pentagon moves to mandate coronavirus vaccination for all troops
8. On Afghanistan’s Front Line, There Are No Good Choices
9. A Climate of Catastrophe
10. A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us.
11. US deserves to be called world's biggest anti-pandemic failure, report says
12. Statement by President Joe Biden on COVID-⁠19 Vaccines for Service Members
13. ‘Climate change is going to cost us’: How the US military is preparing for harsher environments
14. How will the Pentagon close the homeland missile defense gap?
15. Opinion | Wall Street is failing to protect American investors from the Chinese Communist Party
16. Untying the Gordian Knot: Why the Taliban is Unlikely to Break Ties with Al-Qaeda
17. A Reluctant Embrace: China’s New Relationship with the Taliban
18. As U.S. Leaves Afghanistan, History Suggests It May Struggle to Stay Out
19. Chinese pressure sparks debate on Taiwan’s resilience
20. Strait of Emergency? Debating Beijing’s Threat to Taiwan 
21.  #Reviewing The 2021 Global Risks Report
 

Korean News Content:

1.  N.K. leader's sister slams S. Korea, U.S. over joint military exercise
2.  Kim Yo Jong, Vice-department Director of WPK Central Committee, Issues Press Statement
3. Korea Is Alive (nK propaganda)
4. Pentagon declines comment on N.K. statement on exercises
5. Thousands Evacuate Homes as Heavy Rains Flood North Korea
6. UN, EU: ‘Ready to provide humanitarian aid to N. Korea for flood damage’
7. Activists charged with espionage allegedly used local newspaper for N. Korean propaganda
8. N.K. refuses to answer calls from S. Korea in apparent protest against military exercise
9. Kim Yo-jong keeps banging drum against drill
10. Shocking spy activities (north Korea in South Korea)
11. Report: North Korea likely to reopen land trade routes with China
12. Kim Joon-hyung on How Seoul Can Lead Denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula
13. North Korea: the failure of ‘maximum pressure’ on Kim’s isolated regime
14.  US-South Korea drills drop gauntlet on Pyongyang
15. Iran Became a Military Powerhouse Thanks to North Korea
16. What If Kim Jong-un Dies? It Could Mean Nuclear War.
17. North Korea’s Curious COVID-19 Strategy
18. 3 dynamics shaping the security on the Korean peninsula
19. In This Memoir, Prison Is A Place — And A State Of Mind