Small Wars Journal

7/16/2021 Korean and National Security News and Commentary

Fri, 07/16/2021 - 6:19am

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Korea News Table of Contents:

1. U.S. Deputy Secretary Sherman to visit S. Korea next week

2. Sharp Focus: A Unique View of the Sinpo Shipyard

3. Son of slain fisheries official files damages suit against Coast Guard, calls for apology

4. Guardian of international order (US or China?)

5. South Korea’s democratic deconsolidation

6. North Korea Sets Stern Punishments for ‘Anti-Socialist’ Acts

7. Chinese Traders in Dire Straits Over Frozen Border Trade With North Korea

8.  Is the North Korean Economy Under Kim Jong Un in Danger? “Arduous March” in the Age of COVID-19?

9. Trump says he will 'blow up' Korea-US alliance if reelected: book

10. NUKE THREAT North Korea’s nuke expansion is ‘one of most immediate threats to US as Kim Jong-un tries to drive wedge between allies’

11. Survey: More than 90% of S. Koreans don't believe N. Korea will denuclearize

12. S. Korean, Israeli leaders agree on closer ties in response to COVID-19

13. US deputy state secretary's visit to focus on China-curbing alliance

14. Three Haeju university students brought to court for watching and distributing S. Korean videos

National Security News Table of Contents:

1. Strategic Influence: Applying the Principles of Unconventional Warfare in Peace

2. Biden’s new China doctrine

3. Why Freedom Will Find A Way In Cuba

4. 1st female sailor completes Navy special warfare training

5. The Hearts-and-Minds Myth - How America Gets Counterinsurgency Wrong

6. Japan Is Indispensable Again

7. Gamifying Disinformation Mitigation

8. SecDef Teases New Deterrence Strategy, Vows Billions More for AI

9. So nice of China to put all of its network zero-day vulns in one giant database no one will think to break into

10. The China Challenge: How confident can Beijing be about its future?

11. U.S. military once trained Colombians implicated in Haiti assassination plot, Pentagon says

12. Xi’s squeeze taking the verve out of China Inc

13. Tanks are here to stay: What the Army’s future armored fleet will look like

14. Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House

15. Education Against Extremism: Suggestions for a Smarter Stand-Down

16. China snubs senior US official in worsening diplomatic stand-off