Small Wars Journal

7/17/22 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Tue, 05/17/2022 - 10:16am

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 16 (PUTIN'S WAR)
2. The ingenious strategy that could win the war for Ukraine
3. Special Operators Must Learn to Exist Without ‘Tethers’
4. Gov't to relocate JCS to southern Seoul: defense ministry
5. Analysis: Neutral Switzerland leans closer to NATO
6. President Biden’s Missed Opportunities at U.S.-ASEAN Summit
7. US troops heading back into Somalia, reversing Trump order
8. Retired colonel tells Russian state TV 'the whole world is against us'
9. More than 250 Ukrainian troops surrender as Kyiv orders Mariupol to yield
10. Vladimir Putin takes personal control of Russia's faltering Donbas offensive
11. Putin involved in war ‘at level of colonel or brigadier’, say western sources
12. War within Russia's secret services over bogus intelligence that led to invasion
13. U.S. State Department Set to Delist Mujahideen Shura Council of Jerusalem
14. Biden administration can’t overlook the Balkans when sanctioning Russia
15. The staggering amount of US military aid to Ukraine, explained in one chart
16. Why China Is Paranoid About the Quad
17. America’s Wars Are Fought by Relatively Few People. That’s a Problem for Phil Klay. (Book Review)
18. What Is China Learning From Russia's War in Ukraine?
19. The Right Way to Sanction Russian Energy
20. The Collateral Damage in China’s Covid War
21. Digital Transformation Is a Cultural Problem, Not a Technological One


 

Korean News Content:

1. Yoon names ex-Vice FM Cho as ambassador to U.S.
2. Kim Jong-un Is Sacrificing a Sick Nation for His Ambitions
3. There’s One Reason Kim Jong Un Is Loving NK’s COVID Outbreak
4. N. Korea still unresponsive to S. Korea's outreach for talks on COVID-19: official
5. North Korea’s Covid explosion: a survivability test
6. U.S. warns against inadvertently hiring North Korean IT workers
7. Chinese FM meets ROK's new FM via video link
8. South Korea Can Do More in the Battle Against COVID-19
9. Regional Quagmire And Looming Fragility Of Deterrence Impact – Analysis
10. North Korea flies in supplies from China
11. Kyiv-based Magazine Interviews Ex-Navy Seal, South Korean Special Forces Officer
12. North won't accept Covid medicines from South or U.S., defector says
13. Biden to stress US security commitment at DMZ: experts
14. Honor May 18 spirit (Kwangju, Korea)
15. ‘Too late for vaccines to save North Korea’
16. Pyongyang criticizes Yoon for rehashing old-school North Korea policy
17. Could Moon act as special envoy to North Korea?
18. How to Mend the Rift Between Japan and South Korea