Small Wars Journal

9/27/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Fri, 09/27/2024 - 5:01pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. Japan Gets a New Leader Who Wants to Remake the U.S. Military Alliance
2. China’s Newest Nuclear Submarine Sank, Setting Back Its Military Modernization
3. Ukraine Defends Kharkiv by Going on Offense
4. On the Front Lines With Ukraine’s Killer Drone Pilot
5. How Israel’s Spies Got Blindsided by Hamas but Still Hit Hezbollah Hard
6. DoJ Notified of Suspected Faulty Welds on Subs, Aircraft Carriers at Newport News Shipbuilding
7. Exclusive/Australian and New Zealand warships entered the Taiwan Strait today. The People's Liberation Army sent five warships to monitor the entire process.
8. Japan joins patrols through Taiwan Strait - reports
9. Fears of Weakness in Water Cybersecurity Grow After Kansas Attack
10. U.S. Intelligence Stresses Risks in Allowing Long-Range Strikes by Ukraine
11. Xi Jinping Is Prioritizing Political Survival Over Economic Prosperity
12. War Books: The Operational Level of War
13. The Fight for a New Israel
14. Zelensky makes urgent in-person plea to Biden and Harris who highlights her contrasting approach to Trump
15. The Big Five - 27 September edition by Mick Ryan
16. Special operations forces face hurdles to DOD program for civilian transition, report says
17. A Crisis of Competence
18. China-Taiwan Weekly Update, September 27, 2024
19. Strategic Options to De-escalate the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict
20. How Defense Experts Got Ukraine Wrong By Eliot A. Cohen and Phillips Payson O’Brien
21. Has the Third Lebanon War Begun?
22. Stanley McChrystal: Why Kamala Harris Has Won Me Over

Korean News Content:

1. Experts call for placing human rights at center of NK policy
2. Lee Il-gyu: “Kim Jong-un adopts ‘party first’ policy due to fear of coup”
3. [Lancome] Let's not unify?
4. Seoul should engage Kim Jong-un’s elites for change, ex-North Korean diplomat says
5. U.S. Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights: “Possibility of Internal Uprising in North Korea is Low”
6. S. Korea pledges to maintain 'positive momentum' with Japan under Ishiba
7. “If we accept the ‘two-state theory’, we will lose the basis for protecting North Korean defectors”
8. S. Korea had 'constructive' talks with U.S. for defense cost sharing: official
9. Expanding access to information in N. Korea is 'key pillar' of U.S. policy: U.S. envoy
10. U.S. Air Force blames flight instruments failure for December F-16 crash
11. <Lighting Up North Korea's Dark Four Years> (3) The Second Link in the Tragedy – Ruthless Quarantine Policy, "The State is Scarier than the Virus"
12. N. Korea raises number of criminal charges subject to death penalty: report
13. The Wily Spy Who Risked His Life to Meet North Korea’s Secretive Leader
14. Forum discusses how US presidential election will impact US-ROK alliance