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Korean News Contents:

1. Koreas reopen severed cross-border hotlines
2.  N.K. leader makes no mention of nuclear deterrence at national conference of war veterans
3. U.S. welcomes reopening of inter-Korean communication lines as 'positive step'
4. U.S. approach toward N. Korea leaves doors open to dialogue: Austin
5. Taiwanese netizens thank Korea for using 'Taiwan,' not 'Chinese Taipei'
6. North Korean Soldiers Steal from Civilians to Celebrate End of Korean War
7. Hungry North Korean soldiers ‘terrorize civilians’
8. EXCLUSIVE North, South Korea in talks over summit, reopening liaison office
9. Two Koreas Agree to Rebuild Ties in Possible Opening for Biden
10. What we know about inter-Korean hotlines, unique symbol for testy ties
11. Even in absence, North Korea's presence felt at Tokyo Games
12.  Korea Sent More COVID Aid to China Than to Poor Countries
13. Seoul refocuses on roads, railway projects with Pyongyang
14. Still no signs that North Korea is distributing food to ordinary people
15. Restored hotlines may indicate North's willingness for dialogue with U.S.
16. Many North Korean farms still need to be properly weeded

National Security News Contents:

1. Secretary of Defense Remarks at the 40th International Institute for Strategic Studies Fullerton Lecture (As Prepared)

2. After Years of Chinese Influence, U.S. Tries to Renew Ties in Southeast Asia

3. 'Matrix hurt, and still worries us,' says Hidilyn's mother

4. Analysis | China may be having a harder time with Biden than with Trump

5. Joe Biden Says He’s Ending Forever Wars. He Isn’t.

6. ‘We Will Not Flinch’: Austin Promises U.S. Will Continue to Bolster Taiwan’s Self-Defense

7. Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database

8. Iraq wants American firm to replace Exxon, prime minister says

9. White House seeking $1 billion to help resettle Afghan allies

10. Foreign Policy Returns to Normal, for Both Better and Worse by John Bolton

11.  ‘We’re better than that’: Austin speaks about ‘un-American’ discrimination against Asians

12. FDD | Cyber Hygiene 101 for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses

13. Far more world leaders visit China than America

14. France, US losing civilian control of their militaries

15. Royal Navy defies China en route to South China Sea

16. Not Your Grandfather’s Counterinsurgency: The United States Must Prepare for Radically New Forms of Nonstate Violence

17. Biden zigzags on China policy

Illicit Tactical Progress: Mexican Cartel Tactical Notes 2013-2020

Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan, Editors

SWJ has released a new curated collection Illicit Tactical Progress: Mexican Cartel Tactical Notes 2013-2020 documenting the evolution of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by Mexican cartels and criminal armed groups (CAGs).

This Small Wars Journal-El Centro Anthology contains a prologue on Gang and Cartel ‘Lessons’ for the Streets by retired LASD Commander Sid Heal, and introduction and conclusion by SWJ-El Centro Senior Fellows Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan, eight years of ‘tactical notes’ covering documented cartel and gang TTP evolution (2013-2020), an afterword by gang specialist Gabriel C. Morales, and a postscript by retired Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Field Division intelligence head Gary J. Hale. 

This book is an eye-opener that may be an appalling representation of current events in Mexico, but it is based on factual reports of the strength, manner, and frequency of the cartel violence that occurs every day in Mexico. ... As long as the cartels continue to keep their wars inside Mexico and as long as Mexico does not ask for US help, the status quo will continue, and we will see this level and scope of violence incrementally increase in that nation. – Gary J. Hale, DEA (Ret.)

Source: Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan, Editors, Illicit Tactical Progress: Mexican Cartel Tactical Notes 2013-2020. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2021.

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Korean News Contents:

1. Armistice ends Korean War hostilities
2. A Proclamation on National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, 2021
3..  Biden cites pride in Korea-US friendship, calls it key to peace and stability
4. Breaking News: the Two Koreas Reconnect the Inter-Korean Hotline, Signaling the Resumption of Dialogue
5.  KCNA Report on Re-operation of Inter-Korean Communication Liaison Lines
6.  Increasing Chinese property purchases concern Koreans
7. Sherman stresses importance of cooperation on N. Korea during visit to China: State Dept.
8. N. Korea says restoration of cross-border hotline will play positive role in improving relations
9. N.K. leader pays respects to fallen soldiers to mark anniversary of Korean War armistice
10.  Does South Korea’s youngest political boss have the chops to lead?
11. Cheong Wa Dae says no plan yet to send special envoy to N. Korea
12. UNC chief vows 'unwavering' commitment to alliance on armistice anniversary
13. Chronology of major events leading to restoration of inter-Korean communication lines
14. Rival parties welcome restoration of communication lines between two Koreas
15. Moon awards medals to two UN Forces veterans for war service
16. Hope for better ties (north - South)
17. North Korean schools will go on vacation in August
18. ＜Inside N. Korea＞ Unauthorized migration of the urban poor population towards the poorest and most rural areas. Why?
 

National Security News Content:

1. A 2nd New Nuclear Missile Base for China, and Many Questions About Strategy
2. China floods: ‘Digital dark age’ after disaster wreaks havoc on internet and electricity
3. ‘It Failed Miserably’: After Wargaming Loss, Joint Chiefs Are Overhauling How the US Military Will Fight
4. Full Spectrum: Capabilities And Authorities In Cyber And The Information Environment
5. Cuba and How Biden Can Avoid Another Mariel Boatlift
6. The Rising Risk of China’s Intellectual-Property Theft
7. Why China Will Not Cooperate with the West: The Pandemic Made Things Worse
8. President Biden, Keep China Away From American Farmland
9. U.S. allegations of China hacking disingenuous and self-defeating
10. In Stinging Rebuke, China Tells U.S. Diplomat That Its Rise Can’t Be Stopped
11. U.S., China square off in rare diplomatic meeting in Tianjin
12. Critics say Biden missing a chance to back freedom movement in Cuba
13. How to Avert Disaster in Afghanistan
14. A U.S. Defense Budget That Makes China Smile
15. Exclusive: Spec Ops Vets on why we must save Afghan Interpreters
16. Joe Biden’s Afghan pullout could end in tragedy
17. We’re Not Prepared to Live in This Surveillance Society
18. During Latest Exchange, China Presents US With 2 Lists of Grievances
19. The Problem with Biden’s Democracy Agenda
20. BRI vs New Quad for Afghanistan’s coming boom
21. We're Designing Ourselves to Lose
22. MC-145B Wily Coyote Special Ops Planes Will Be Able To Launch Stealth Cruise Missiles
23. Strategic Outpost’s Sixth Annual Summer Vacation Reading List

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Korean News Contents:

1. What If Kim Jong-un Isn’t Really in Charge of North Korea?
2. N. Korea to hold national conference of war veterans to celebrate end of Korean War
3.  N.K. propaganda website slams Japan for taking issue with S. Korean banners at Olympics
4. Japan’s ‘rising sun’ flag evokes anger
5. Shame on Japan: Tokyo should not deny wartime forced labor
6. Olympics and multiculturalism
7. Japan–South Korea Olympic diplomacy over before it began
8. More foreign diplomats exit North Korea amid COVID-19
9. ＜Inside N. Korea＞ Serious violent behaviour of discharged military personnel: dissatisfaction with rural deployment.
10.  Bracing for future war (South Korea)
11. Brutal Conditions in N.Korean Prison Camp Exposed
12. [Interview] North Koreans respond to their government's push for more "recycling"
13. N. Hamgyong Province organizes "secret disciplinary units" to crack down on anti-socialist behavior
14. S. Korea to repatriate remains of Chinese soldiers killed in Korean War
15. Ban Ki-moon, Emperor Naruhito discuss bilateral ties after Olympic opening
16. South Korea Too Preoccupied with Survival to be Asia’s Sweden
17. Is South Korea Truly a ‘Middle Power’?
18. North Korea's economic paradox: how de-marketization is driving up value of North's won

National Security News Contents:

1. Austin Administers Speedy Swearing-In for DOD's New Indo-Pacific Policy Guru
2.  U.S. Population Growth, an Economic Driver, Grinds to a Halt
3. Secret files suggest Nazis knew about Great Escape and let it go ahead
4. U.S. Intensifies Airstrikes in Afghanistan as Taliban Offensive Nears Kandahar
5. Leaders Discuss Reforms in the Special Operations Community
6. Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming
7. Al Lord Profited When College Tuition Rose. He Is Paying For It.
8. Cold reception: US diplomat arrives in China for a ‘good tutorial’ in how to behave
9. CORDS drastically reduces E. Visayas insurgency problem
10. Senate authorizers want to fund the Army’s entire wish list
11. What China’s Vast New Cybersecurity Center Tells Us About Beijing’s Ambitions
12. Opinion | Afghan resistance to the Taliban needs U.S. support — and a big morale boost
13. The US Army’s new iron triangle: The coming budget crunch and its implications for modernization
14. Confronting Cyber Threats: Challenges and Opportunities
15. Climate Scientists Meet As Floods, Fires, Droughts And Heat Waves Batter Countries
16. Foreign Policy Should Be Evidence-Based
17. China Urges Washington To Stop ''Demonising'' It During US Official Visit
18. America’s real plan for Afghanistan
19. ‘Buffs’ could rain death on the Taiwan Strait
20. Huawei hiring former Democratic super lobbyist Tony Podesta

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Korean News Content:

1. Sanctions relief possible if North begins nuke talks: Sherman
2. N. Korean Media Mentions COVID-19 Outbreak in S. Korean Military Unit
3. Korean Americans separated by war have waited 70 years for a reunion. Their time is running out
4. Will Japan and South Korea friction pose a problem for US peace push in Asia?
5.  Ex-U.N. chief Ban meets Japan's Emperor Naruhito at Olympics: sources
6. N.K. leader expresses support for China's flood recovery efforts in message to Xi: state media
7. Tokyo diary: South Korea and Japan turn back the clock
8. 'I will upend everything Moon has done': Jeju governor declares presidential bid

National Security New Content:

1. US special operators and their allies say taking on Russia and China in Africa requires 'strange bedfellows'
2. A shift from terrorism to China
3. The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online
4. NPS launches Center on Combating Hybrid Threats to address hybrid warfare
5. New commander of 25th ID short on Pacific experience, long on warfighting basics
6. Success in the Shadows: Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines and the Global War on Terror, 2002–2015
7. How Taiwan is trying to defend against a cyber 'World War III'
8. Investors Are Buying American
9. Review | Faith that the truth can still defeat misinformation
10. How Science Lost the Public’s Trust
 

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Korean News Contents:

1. North Korea seethes as U.S., South Korea plan new joint drills
2. Video: One Korea Network on Religious Freedom north Korea.
3. North Korean Oil Tanker Stops in Chinese Port in the First Recorded Visit Since 2017
4. 'Escape from Mogadishu' reenacts heart-warming story of North and South Koreans
5. North Korean defectors forced to pay more in bribes, research says
6. The rationing system is on the brink of collapse, North Korea’s food shortage is approaching a humanitarian crisis
7. ＜Inside N. Korea＞ Confusion over rising food prices continues with government forcing "lower prices." Vendors counter by refusing to sell.
8. Why North Korea is so afraid of K-pop
9. North Korea Commits Two People to Mental Institutions After Public Outbursts
10.  Repeated diplomacy bungles (China toward South Korea)
11. South Korean TV Network Apologises For Offensive Olympic Broadcast
12. Korea Faces Protracted Lockdown
13. Korea-Japan rivalry continues at Tokyo Games
14. US Working to Ease Suffering of N. Koreans in Response to Repatriation Concerns
15. Washington warns global businesses in S. Korea about legal risks
 

National Security News Contents: 

1. Podcast: The Indigenous Approach - Concept of Resistance: Part 2 - Resistance in the Indo-Pacific
2. Biden Loses Top Pentagon Asia Hand
3. Is Cuba’s Communist Party Finally Losing Its Hold on the Country?
4. Chinese oil companies fill void in Iraq
5. Opinion | Civilized nations’ efforts to deter Russia and China are starting to add up
6. It’s Time to Bring Back USIA
7. Opinion | Russia and China are trying to control the Internet — even as they censor it
8. The Life Cycle Of A COVID-19 Vaccine Lie
9. The U.S. Has Had 'Vaccine Passports' Before—And They Worked
10. Manufactured Whistleblowing: Data Leaks as Subversion
11. Military special operations facing 4% budget cut
12. China Blasts NBC for Using ‘Incomplete’ Map on Olympic Broadcast
13. SEALs have a new target: Congress
14. Proposed 'Hack-Back' Bill Tells DHS To Study Allowing Companies To Retaliate
15. Quad: Build Better Alliances
16. Warnings That Work: Combating Misinformation Without Deplatforming
17. A $500 Rip It? How grilled cheese and energy drinks fueled the Afghanistan withdrawal
 

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Korean News Contents:

1.  North Korea in a Nutshell
2. The World Must Not Forgot North Korea’s Crimes Against Humanity
3. N. Korea is one area U.S. and China share 'aligned' interests: State Dept.
4. Sherman: U.S. will discuss with China over N. Korea policy
5. Whither the Unification Ministry?
6. China Restarts Forced Returns of Refugees to North Korea
7. N. Korea beefs up crackdown on use of mobile phones, digital devices in border regions: report
8. N.K. paper calls grain production 'life-or-death' matter
9. Senior S. Korean diplomat holds talks with chief of U.N. peace-building body
10. U.S. looks forward to 'reliable, predictable, constructive' way forward with N. Korea: Sherman
11. [Editorial] Deep rift: Korea’s bid for Japan summit founders; leaders must keep trying to build trust
12. US diplomat worried about pandemic, food supply in N Korea
13. Indonesia Recalls Diplomats in N. Korea over Covid-19 Lockdown
14. Denuclearizing North Korea: Moon Jae-In’s Challenges – Analysis
15. North Korea warns young people to shun slang, style from South Korea
16. The COVID Effect on 'Carrots vs. Sticks' (north Korea)

Naitonal Security News Contents:

1. General Officer Assignments
2. Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight
3. Nine Individuals Charged in Superseding Indictment with Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People’s Republic of China
4. To Win Friends and Influence People, America Should Learn From the CCP
5. SASC Adds $25 Billion To NDAA In Bipartisan Vote
6. "No chance" U.S. can stop Chinese invasion of Taiwan, military expert says
7. On Chinese Hacking, Biden Gets It
8. Bird-Mimicking Electric Drone Hits New Endurance Record
9. Women, Peace, and Security: Moving Implementation Forward
10.How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign-Domestic Threat Dilemma in China
11. US Playing Long Game To Pressure China On Cyber Ops: Experts 
12. SOCOM Members Got an All-Star Crash Course in AI
13. China has a ‘lying flat’ youth problem
14. A legendary Chinese dissident blogger has suddenly fallen silent
15. SOCOM Wants Four ‘Armed Overwatch’ Squadrons, With One Always Deployed
16. Strengthening Taiwan’s Resistance
17. Prepare Now for War in the Pacific
18. Learning in the grey zone: how democracies can meet the authoritarian challenge |

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Korean News Contents:

1. Deputy Secretary of State Sherman to meet FM Chung, other officials in Seoul
2.  Fitch keeps S. Korea's credit rating at 'AA-,' outlook stable
3. NYC’s Push for “Otto Warmbier Way”: Calls for International Solidarity against the Kim Regime’s Brutal Tyranny
4. North Korea food shortage turns into new Asia humanitarian crisis
5. Kim Jong Un Criticizes Youth for Not Being North Korean Enough
6. Death of Two North Korean Prisoners Highlights Starvation Diets
7. Sherman, FM Chung reaffirm efforts to bring N. Korea to dialogue table
8. S. Korea seeks unification not 'by absorption' but through peaceful means: official
9. N.K. foreign ministry again accuses U.S. of involvement in anti-gov't protests in Cuba
10. Blame game goes into high gear over infections on ship
11. Beijing defends its envoy's opinions about Yoon
12. A social agreement on unification
13. Moon Considers Pardons for Ex-President Park, Samsung Chief
14. Korean War Veterans Advocate Named to U.S. Health Post
15. North Korea Truly Is the Hermit Kingdom (Thanks to Coronavirus)
16. A shattered mirror
17. Four North Korean cadres sacked in N. Hamgyong Province for failures in managing COVID-19 quarantine efforts
18. North Korea massacre as Kim Jong-un plots mass execution of defectors: 'Sent back to die'
19. North Korean military encourages use of the "Pyongyang cultural language"

National Security News Content:

1. In rare move, Army names 2 soldiers killed in 2017 Niger ambush honorary Green Berets
2. Secretary of Defense Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Milley Press Briefing
3. The military isn’t ‘distracted’ by the critical race theory conversation, SECDEF says
4. What a top intelligence analyst on China thinks you should know
5. A Taliban Victory Is Not Inevitable
6. Clarifying US commitments to Taiwan
7. China’s Looming Succession Crisis - What Will Happen When Xi Is Gone?
8. Killer Facebook
9. Coups, race, white rage: Pentagon dragged deeper into politics, culture wars
10. Cuba’s Uprising and the Social Change that Caught the Dictatorship by Surprise
11. Philippines Considering Addendum to U.S. Visiting Forces Agreement
12. Exclusive: Fallen soldier to be first Black Medal of Honor recipient since Vietnam
13. Promote Open Source to a Full Member of the Intelligence Community
14. ‘Not One Time’: Milley Says Joint Chiefs Did Not Violate Oath in Handling Trump
15. July 22: A Pivotal Day in Terrorism History
16. tl;dr edition of “W(h)ither R: a marquee failure of leadership in foreign policy”
17. IntelBrief: Operating in the Gray Zone: China’s Cyber Operations Call for a Unified Response
18. Havana Syndrome Task Force to Be Led by Veteran of Hunt for Bin Laden
19. Analysis | Approval of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is more deeply embedded than you might think
20. China has new man for Afghanistan and plan to avoid civil war across border
21. Senators propose enhancing Taiwan defense in face of China threat
22. FLASHBACK: The Media’s Most Outrageous Olympic Outbursts
23. Kennan’s 'Measures Short of War' Applied to U.S.-China Cold War
24. Army War College commandant reinstated, cleared of ‘inappropriate touching’
25. Infertility, erectile dysfunction, and altered DNA — Army experts debunk COVID vaccine myths one by one
26. Biden’s Dangerous Doctrine
27. Russian and Iranian Proxy Forces Are Baffling the U.S.
28. Americans Hate Each Other
 

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Korean News Contents:

1. Israel-Palestine Conflict: Military Lessons for South Korea?
2. New daily cases set another record amid rise of delta variant (South Korea)
3. 16 more USFK-affiliated individuals test positive for COVID-19
4. Dozens of USFK service members donate blood amid low supplies over COVID-19
5. Korea, Japan, U.S. diplomats meet in Tokyo
6. Deputy US Secretary of State Sherman renews calls for North Korea to resume dialogue
7. Why South Korea cannot achieve denuclearization of Korean Peninsula
8. South Korea, US, Japan agree to up cooperation over NK, pandemic
9. Some North Koreans are too poor to buy rice sold by the government at below-market prices
10. North Korean soldier deserts his Haeju-based military unit while armed
11. North Korea's quarantine policies are generating discrimination against those with COVID-19 symptoms
12. Did America Start the Korean War? China Thinks So.
13. Report: U.S. mum on Mexico's public overtures to North Korea
14. North Korea highlights 'deepening friendship' with Russia on anniversary
15. America Shouldn’t Bet on a North Korean Blockade to Bring Down Kim
16. ＜Inside N. Korea＞ Authorities distribute emergency food to residents, about 5 to 7 kilograms of corn. How did the residents react?
17. North Koreans Alarmed by Starvation Deaths of Well-Off Ethnic Chinese
18. ETH developer Virgil Griffith back in jail after allegedly checking Coinbase account
19. South Korea’s soft power struggles
20. Pegasus-style surveillance is everyday life in North Korea

National Security News Contents:

1. Pentagon inspector general exploring how to better secure the ‘nuclear football’
2. National Security Is Stronger When Congress Is Involved. Here’s How We Get Back to the Table.
3. Enter and Clear a Room: The History of Battle Drill 6, and Why the Army Needs More Tactical Training like It—not Less
4. FDD | How to Stop China From Controlling the Global Semiconductor Industry
5. Pence v. Biden on China: Competing but consistent visions
6. U.S. Life Expectancy Fell by 1.5 Years in 2020, the Biggest Decline in Generations
7. US official to visit China as diplomatic stand-off resolved
8. Trailblazing Admiral, Hall of Fame Female Diver Retires After Conquering ‘Fear of the Sea’ 
9. Deception Is the Biggest Threat to American Security
10. US blocking more Chinese students from its universities
11. China's borders will likely remain shut for months, but some may be wary of visiting even after they reopen
12. New Legislation Could Limit the President’s Control of Foreign Policy
13. How Diplomatic Snubs Highlight Frayed China-U.S. Ties
14. What Is the Fatemiyoun Brigade and Why Does It Make the Taliban Nervous?
15. Sun Tzu and Us
16. Renaming Military Bases Is “History Correcting Itself”
17. The Automation Gap in Biden’s Cybersecurity Order
18. Chinese Researcher Tang Juan’s Trial Reveals Beijing’s Espionage Strategy – OpEd
19. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command executive assistant, 31, pleads guilty to removing classified documents