Small Wars Journal

8/3/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sat, 08/03/2024 - 10:34am

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. Conflict in the Gray Zone: A Prevailing Geopolitical Dynamic Through 2030  
2. Updated IC Gray Zone Lexicon: Key Terms and Definitions
3. Secretary Austin Signs Memo Withdrawing From the Pre-Trial Agreements in the 9/11 Military Commission Cases
4. Defense Secretary Revokes Plea Deal for Accused Sept. 11 Plotters
5. jaw jaw or war war – reflections on the recent prison exchange
6. Kissinger vs. Blinken: A Synthetic Foreign Policy Debate
7. Russia’s top spymaster falsely claims Kremlin does not interfere in other countries’ affairs
8. Chinese communist, military writings reveal plans for strategic influence operations through TikTok
9. Community engagement can mitigate disinformation. Here’s how a Dallas editor is leading the way.
10. Airstrikes, Artificial Intelligence, and Sabotage Drive Russian Psyops
11. Russia vs Ukraine: the biggest war of the fake news era
12. Annexation of Taiwan: A Defeat From Which the US and Its Allies Could Not Retreat
13. South China Sea row high on Quad agenda with ‘message’ aimed at Beijing
14. How Disney’s Deadpool Danced Around China’s Censors—Cocaine, F-Bombs and All
15. ‘We lost sight of him’: Radio traffic shows failed search for Trump rally shooter
16. Tech Failings Plagued Secret Service at Trump Rally
17. Autocrats Wield Hostage-Taking as Potent Weapon Against West
18. Army’s long-range tiltrotor aircraft moves to next development phase
19. Why Ukraine is obsessed with the U.S. sitcom 'Friends'

 

Korean News Content:

1. North Korean defectors: "North Korea is concerned about ideological changes among young people… Need to provide outside information"
2. Experts: “Redeployment of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Korea ‘Premature’… Strategic Discussions Must Continue”
3. North Korea 'Shopping for Mass Destruction ', Expert Warns
4. North Korea's former No. 2 diplomat in Cuba describes his dramatic, swift defection
5. Inside Kim’s succession crisis as ‘spoiled’ daughter rivals her brutal sister
6. N.K. leader Kim slams S. Korean 'fabricated' news on flood damage in his 1st reaction to Seoul over downpours
7. Trump says he got people back from N. Korea amid attention on prisoner swap with Russia
8. North Korea refused China's rescue offer for Yalu River island residents
9. [Eric John's Window] Why I am optimistic about the future of South Korea
10. N. Korea slashes party membership slots for female soldiers
11. N. Korean youth secretly learn tech skills to access outside world
12. N. Korea reaches agreement with China on worker issues
13. North Korea demolishes Pyongyang guesthouse, expands military facilities
14. US will continue to monitor possibility of NK conducting nuclear test: Pentagon
15. Trump Critic Max Boot Wanted the Feds to Bust Foreign Agents. Then His Wife Was Accused of Being One.