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3/19/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sun, 03/19/2023 - 11:12am

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National Security News Content:

1. The U.S. Joint Chiefs New Strategy Paper on Joint Concept for Competing | CSIS
2. A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election
3. How a Problem-Solving Course Could Help Rebuild Trust in the US Military
4. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 18, 2023
5. Russian President Putin visits occupied city of Mariupol
6. Higher cancer rates found in military pilots, ground crews
7. Special Operations Forces Carry Out New Initiative with US Ambassador to Panama
8. Bank fail: How rising interest rates paved the way for Silicon Valley Bank's collapse
9. Can war games really help us predict who will win a conflict?
10. U.S. Seeks to Head Off Any Chinese Call for Cease-Fire in Ukraine
11. The Lessons Not Learned From Iraq
12. In the U.S.-Led Iraq War, Iran Was the Big Winner
13. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) History Brief
14. Opinion | America’s foreign policy has lost all flexibility
15. This Marine vet created a wargame for enlisted leaders
16. Opinion: ICC arrest warrant for Putin is a stunning statement
17. Taiwan charges two former state officials with violating national security law by spying for China
18. Ukraine says SBU "white wolves" destroyed 10 Russian tanks in one night
19. Vultures at the gate: The national security risk of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure
20. What is ‘deep sensing’ and why is the US Army so focused on it?
21. U.S. ran secret probe into China's operations in Canada, new book alleges
22. Venture capital gives America a strategic edge in the age of technology wars
23. 3 takeaways 20 years after the invasion of Iraq
 

Korean News Content:

1. KDVA and KUSAF Joint Message Supporting GSOMIA
2. LINK 'north Korea: the Neglected Security Challenge' with COL Dave Maxwell, USA retired  hosted by Dr. Cynthia Watson
3. North Korean Defectors Put Spotlight on Rights Abuses            
4. North Korea launches missile into sea amid US-SKorea drills
5. North Korean defectors honor Otto Warmbier, Kim Jong Un’s victims

6. To Combat Food Shortages, North Korea Deploys the Military
7. Schoolchildren in DPRK Start Journey for Learning Revolutionary History
8. March 18 Revolution
9. Press Statement of Director General for Int'l Organizations of DPRK Foreign Ministry Issued
10. North Korea Fires Off a Short-Range Ballistic Missile
11. U.S. B-1B strategic bomber returns to S. Korea as N.K. fires missile
12. Denuclearization - Quo Vadis?
13. President Yoon's bold diplomacy for the future

3/18/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sat, 03/18/2023 - 11:04am

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National Security News Content:

1. Unchecked and Uncooperative: How the Pentagon Has Thwarted Congressional Oversight of Security Cooperation Programs
2. Deconstructing the Bipartisan Consensus on the China Threat
3. Russian attacks continue in wake of Putin arrest warrant
4. U.S. Reaches Deep Into Its Global Ammunition Stockpiles to Help Ukraine
5. War crimes, indiscriminate attacks on infrastructure, systematic and widespread torture show disregard for civilians, says UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine
6. Russia disinformation looks to US far right to weaken Ukraine support
7. Is China Winning the Information Race?
8. Ukrainian commander reveals true scale of losses – and pays the price
9. New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market
10. Why Won’t the West Let Ukraine Win Against Russia?
11. The US-Russia drone collision is sign of increasingly unfriendly skies
12. Air Force F-22 Raptors make their first appearance at Clark Air Base, Philippines
13. How America Can Win the Information War
14. Why Arms Control Will Not Come Back Any Time Soon
15. Interests, Not Ideology, Should Drive America's Approach to China
16. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 17, 2023
17. With a duty to learn from and support our colleagues in Ukraine
18. The SVB Collapse Shows U.S. Vulnerabilities Amid Great Power Competition
19. The Biden administration overestimates radiological terrorism risks and underplays biothreats
 

Korean News Content:

1. U.S. accuses China of trying to hide North Korea atrocities
2. Kim Jong-un ultimately accountable for NK's human rights violations: US envoy
3. Defense ministry sets out to normalize military intelligence-sharing deal with Japan
4. Political divide intensifies in Korea over Yoon-Kishida summit
5. NK claims almost 800,000 people have signed up for military to fight against US
6. U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee members to visit Seoul next month: sources
7. Yoon's Bid to Improve Japan Ties Faces Backlash from South Korean Left
8. The US must trade muscles for diplomacy to end the North Korean nuclear crisis
9. Fatal Attraction: Unexpected Outcome Of The Inter-Korean Collusion – OpEd
10. N. Korean laborers in China are still making clothing for S. Korean and US brands
 

3/17/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Fri, 03/17/2023 - 9:44am

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National Security News Content:

1. Competitive Global Engagement: Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy for the New Era (New Report from Robert Gates)
2. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 16, 2023
3. Who Blew Up Nord Stream? Investigators Focus on Six Mysterious Passengers on a Yacht
4. Bakhmut: Russian casualties mount but tactics evolve
5. Poland says it foiled a Russian spy ring seeking to sabotage arms shipments to Ukraine.
6. Now Army Has Operational Imperatives Too, Copying Air Force
7. U.S. Commander: ISIS in Afghanistan 6 Months Away From Foreign Attack Capability
8. A Spy Wants to Connect With You on LinkedIn
9. China roars as US presses ByteDance to sell TikTok
10. Ukraine’s Cyber Defense Offers Lessons for Taiwan
11. US, Chinese commands in Pacific aren’t talking, says Indo-Pacific boss
12. China’s Xi to Meet Putin in Moscow Next Week
13. VA to change its motto, dropping male-only language
14. Why the US military should build modular nuclear reactors
15. Reaper Down: Three Takeaways from Russia’s Intercept of a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
16. Beijing Looks to Get Economic Projects Up and Running in Myanmar
17. Virginia government tells elite high school to ‘cut ties’ with Chinese government
18. Pentagon starts work on secretive experiment to aid long-range fires
19. Myanmar is a failing state, led by a junta fuelled by Russian arms, says UN rights envoy
20. Launch Under Attack: A Sword of Damocles
21. Military Chief Says US Will Defend Indo-Pacific Freedoms
22. The Surprising Success of U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine
 

Korean News Content:

1. DPRK (North Korea): Arria-formula Meeting on the Human Rights Situation
2. N. Korea test-fired Hwasong-17 ICBM in warning to enemies holding allied drills: state media
3. Yoon, Kishida bond over drinks at popular eatery
4. Allies to resume large-scale amphibious drills next week after 5-year hiatus
5. Why South Koreans should have access to Pyongyang's propaganda media
6. [ANALYSIS] Too early to hail success of Korea-Japan summit
7. ‘Hunting rifles’ — really? China ships assault weapons and body armor to Russia
8. NK leader says nuclear buildup is to ‘strike fear into enemies’
9. Main opposition slams Korea-Japan summit as 'most humiliating' moment in diplomacy
10. PacNet #14 - South Korea's Indo-Pacific pivot strategy
11. South Korea Could Get Away With the Bomb
12. N. Korean family in Rason rumored to have made soup out of pet dog
13. N. Korean state security officers use remittance brokers to take money from defector families
14. Military Chief Says US Will Defend Indo-Pacific Freedoms
15. The US defector to North Korea no one ever hears about
 

3/16/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Thu, 03/16/2023 - 10:01am

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National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 15, 2023
2. James Zumwalt: China’s Doomsday Plan For America
3.  The Kremlin’s Never-Ending Attempt to Spread Disinformation about Biological Weapons (Global Engagement Center)
4. China has a plan to lead the world. What's ours?
5. The Strange Case of Iraq Syndrome
6. How China Became a Peacemaker in the Middle East
7. Russian leadership approved actions of jets that damaged U.S. drone, officials say
8. Russia Wants a Long War: The West Needs to Send Ukraine More Arms, More Quickly
9. Why Sending F-16s to Ukraine Would Be a Mistake
10. A Solution for Japan’s Military Mismatch
11. Pentagon Creates Cell to Oversee Expansion of Weapon Production Lines
12. How the US plans to expand its submarine industrial base for AUKUS
13.  Ideology is back, and it’s critical for understanding AUKUS v China
14. Exclusive: Chinese-made drone, retrofitted and weaponized, downed in eastern Ukraine
15. What Russia's possible collapse could mean for China
16. Blind Sided: A Reconceptualization of the Role of Emerging Technologies in Shaping Information Operations in the Gray Zone
17.  Munitions Return to a Place of Prominence in National Security
18. Rebel youth risk life and limb in Myanmar’s cruel war
19. Eye on Taiwan, US-Philippines to stage largest-ever wargames
20. Michael Klare, Is War with China Inevitable?
21. Weaponizing Rights: An Untapped Tool for Special Operations Forces
22. New Baumholder special operations hub allocated $64 million in 2024 proposal
23. Interior Lines Will Make Land Power the Asymmetric Advantage in the Indo-Pacific
24. Violent Far-Right Movements Aren’t Just a ‘Western Problem’
25. Army Asks for Massive Cash Boost for New Barracks
26. CIA's Coming Tech Revolution
27. Why Won’t the West Let Ukraine Win Against Russia? By John Bolton
28. This Is What We Do in America. We Pause. We Forget. Then We Begin the Next War.
 

Korean News Content:

1. If North Korea Launches a Full-Range ICBM Test Will Joe Biden Shoot It Down?
2. N. Korea fires one apparent ICBM ahead of S. Korea-Japan summit
3. North Korean ICBM could hit central US in 33 minutes due to gaps in America's missile defence 'kill chain', China claims
4. Department Press Briefing – March 14, 2023 - United States Department of State (Korea Comments)
5. Yoon announces 'complete normalization' of military intel-sharing pact with Japan
6. Japan lifts chipmaking export controls on South Korea        
7. <Inside N. Korea>Food sales banned in markets, leading to anxiety and concern while deepening the poverty suffered by the poor
8. Samsung to build world’s largest semiconductor cluster in Korea
9. President Yoon Suk Yeol warns North after missile launched
10. South Korea and Japan hail spring thaw amid missiles and weight of history
11. National interest not a zero-sum game with Japan: Yoon
12. Nuclear weapons gaffe in South Korea is a warning to leaders everywhere
13. Peninsula Plus: Enhancing U.S.–South Korea Alliance Cooperation on China, Multilateralism, and Military and Security Technologies
14. After South Korea’s Icebreaker, Its President Is Welcomed to Tokyo
15. North Korean Women’s Gloomy ‘Glory’ on International Women’s Day
16. The Kishida-Yoon Summit Meeting: A New Start for Japan-Korea Relations
17. Siblings Who Went Viral After Crashing Dad's on-Air BBC Interview 6 Years Ago Look All Grown Up
18. Amid North Korea’s economic woes, repairing shoes is big business
 

3/15/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Wed, 03/15/2023 - 9:52am

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National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 14, 2023
2. New US nuclear chief takes fresh stance on sea-launched cruise missile
3. China and Russia Denounce U.S., Allies Over Submarine Deal
4. In a First, Army Selects Pilot to Command Delta Force
5. A two-front test of wills: Defeating Russia and deterring China
6. Ukraine's Military Intelligence Chief Predicts How War Will End
7. American Power and the Defense of Taiwan
8. How to Prepare for Peace Talks in Ukraine
9. The US, UK and Australia Send China a Message
10. Microsoft-backed OpenAI starts release of powerful AI known as GPT-4
11. Special Operations News Update - March 15, 2023 | SOF News
12. The top Spec Ops general on Fort Bragg crime
13. A new Pentagon map shows how China is beefing up what a top US general calls its 'dangerous position' in the South China Sea
14. China warns Philippines not to give US more access to bases
15. AUKUS: Flawed by Design?
16. China, Russia and Iran: Axis of Tyrannies presents enormous challenge to free nations
17. Strategic Amnesia: The U.S. Army’s Stubborn Rush to Its Next War
18. Artillery Shortage Hampers Russia’s Offensive in East Ukraine, Western Officials Say

Korean News Content:

1. North Korea really hates U.S.-South Korea military drills. Here’s why.
2. Why America Should Destroy North Korean ICBMs Fired Into the Pacific Ocean
3. S. Korea joins U.S.-led multinational anti-submarine exercise
4. S. Korea, U.S. hold joint river-crossing drills
5. Rumors circulate in Hyesan about opening of Samjang Customs House
6. <Inside N. Korea>Poverty-stricken urban dwellers raid farming villages in search of food…the police are on emergency alert to deal with the rise in robberies
7. N. Korea calls on people to actively engage in springtime tree planting
8. Nuke use by North would mean end of regime: U.S.
9. North Korea says missile launches helped train for missions at any time
10. Prosecutors indict suspected spies for North Korea
11. N. Korea confirms firing of 2 ground-to-ground ballistic missiles Tuesday
12. More North Korean defectors pursue entrepreneurship for better life
13. China's 'greed' compels Korea to side with US, Japan
14. N. Korean provocation cannot stop US-S. Korea joint military drills: NSC coordinator

3/14/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Tue, 03/14/2023 - 8:39am

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National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN UPDATE, MARCH 13, 2023

2. SOF Quills for the Porcupine: Applying Lessons from Ukraine to Taiwan

3. After years of isolation, Xi’s China looks to dominate world stage

4. International Court to Open War Crimes Cases Against Russia, Officials Say

5. Want to beat China? Let in more Chinese!

6. Department of Defense Releases 2024 Military Intelligence Program Budget Request

7. Comptroller Michael J. McCord and Vice Adm. Sara A. Joyner Hold a Press Briefing on President Biden's Fiscal 2024 Defense Budget

8. Aukus, the Anglosphere and the return of great power rivalry

9. More modernisation investment for US MH-47G Chinooks

10. Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow

11. DoD keeps Ukraine aid out of its budget, punting to divided Congress

12. ANALYSIS | China now seen as influencing politics more than ever, on a global scale

13.  Why the US Navy wants to retire eight ships early

14. The Army keeps getting smaller

15. Here’s Everything We Know About the Pentagon’s 2024 Budget Proposal

16. Philippine-US annual military drills will be biggest ever - official

17. US-sanctioned general to become public face of China's growing military

18. The changing face of Chinese governance

19. What is it and why does AUKUS matter?

20. China flexes muscles in Latin America in latest security challenge to US

21. 'Evil empire,' 40 years later

22. Arm Ukraine or Prepare for China? Wrong Question.

23. A Full Spectrum of Conflict Design: How Doctrine Should Embrace Irregular Warfare

24. China has three roads to Taiwan: The US must block them all

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea fires 2 short-range ballistic missiles toward East Sea: S. Korean military

2. USINDOPACOM Statement on DPRK Missile Launches

3. U.S. forced to intensify joint military drills in response to N. Korean provocations: State Dept.

4. North Korea Fires Two Short-Range Ballistic Missiles

5. US, S.Korea kick off largest drills in five years

6. Yoon-Kishida summit to signal 'normalization' of relations

7. South Korea Eyeing Larger Aircraft Carrier for its CVX Program

8. UN Highlights Abuses Against Women and Girls in North Korea

9. Monitoring missile launches a ‘complex beast,’ says Space Force commander in South Korea

10. What crime put away most inmates at N. Korean forced labor camps last year?

11.  Tensions rise on Korean Peninsula during largest Korea-US drill in years

12. Understanding the latest efforts to normalize relations between Japan and South Korea

13. South Korea’s supersized aircraft carrier folly

3/13/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Mon, 03/13/2023 - 9:58am

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National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 12, 2023
2. ‘Little fissures’: The U.S.-Ukraine war unity is slowly cracking apart
3. Pentagon Puts Priority on Replacing Munitions in 2024 Budget
4. The Liberal Cyber Order
5. How to break the Xi-Putin axis? Biden must engage with Beijing
6. USAGM CEO Describes Efforts to Counter Russian and Chinese Propaganda
7. Analysis | Saudi-Iran Agreement Is Less Than Meets the Eye
8. The Russia That Might Have Been
9.  Between deterrence and escalation - The Chinese doom argument
10. The Counterinsurgent’s Curriculum
11. America Is Ceding the Seas to Its Enemies
12.  China-brokered Iran-Saudi deal raises red flags for US
13. War by miscalculation or by mistake?
14. Cobra Gold drills expose US-China fight for Thailand
15. In SVB collapse, Asia sees 1997 all over again
16. China's Xi wants bigger global role after Saudi-Iran deal
17. America Is Still Losing the Information War
18. Congress wants to label Wagner group as a terrorist organization. Why is Biden opposed?
19. USSOCOM’s AFSOC Updates on the MC-130J Floatplane’s Status
20. Staring Down the Black Hole of Russia’s Future
21. Look to Korea to See How China Might Fight in the Pacific Today
22. Pentagon’s counter-drone boss tackles rising threat
23. Exclusive: China's Xi plans Russia visit as soon as next week - sources
24. The Rise and Fall of Chris Miller, Trump's Final Defense Secretary
 

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea warns of 'toughest counteraction' against UNSC meeting on country's rights abuse
2. N.Korea Launches Missiles from Submarine
3. US, South Korea start major drills after Pyongyang's weapons test
4. North Korea fires missiles from submarine at underwater target
5. North Korea tests submarine-launched missile, Seoul says
6. North Korea Launches Two Cruise Missiles From Experimental Submarine
7. S. Korea approves plans to buy F-35A fighters, SM-6 interceptors
8. Yoon congratulates China's Xi on reelection
9. Yoon instructs gov't to find new cooperation projects for S. Korea, Japan
10. Pyongyang calls on district agricultural workers to work more innovatively
11. Does North Korea Want to Start a Crisis?
12. Look to Korea to See How China Might Fight in the Pacific Today

3/12/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sun, 03/12/2023 - 11:48am

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National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 11, 2023
2. How Beijing Boxed America Out of the South China Sea
3. To Counter China, U.S. and Allies Seek to Make Militaries ‘Interchangeable’
4. Russia continues to suffer extremely heavy losses in Ukraine - UK intelligence
5. Chinese Military Pushes For Wartime Law Amid Tension Over Taiwan: Report
6. Opinion  Skeptical of the lab leak theory? Here’s why you should take it seriously.
7. Congress and split intelligence decisions
8.  Russia has "plenty of surprises" left: U.S. spec ops veteran in Ukraine
9. China’s Model of a New Diplomacy Scores a Win With Iran-Saudi Deal
10. Opinion: What to make of China's role in the handshake heard round the world
11. Fewer Than 1/3 of Navy’s Amphibious Ships Are Ready to Deploy
12. IntelBrief: Glass Houses: U.S. Military Trainees and Destabilization of African Governments
13. “Just Do It, No Delay”: Inside the Secret Mission to Evacuate an Injured Fox News Correspondent From Ukraine
14. 'Top Gun: Maverick' is 'insidious' for portraying 'virtue' of U.S. military: MSNBC editor
15. SFABS ADJUST UNIQUE ROLE FOR LARGE-SCALE COMBAT
16. Anti-Russia guerrillas in Belarus take on 'two-headed enemy'
17. Who Really Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline?
18. Opinion | Who Benefits From Confrontation With China?
19. China: EDCA expansion to 'seriously' harm Philippines' interest, regional stability
20. Former top U.S. admiral cashes in on nuclear sub deal with Australia
21. Opinion | Don’t Let the Culture War Degrade the Constitution
22. Traute Lafrenz, Last Survivor of Anti-Hitler Group, Dies at 103
 

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea approves war deterrent steps against S. Korea-U.S. drills at key party meeting: KCNA
2. Biden asks Yoon to lead plenary session in upcoming democracy summit
3. N.Korea warns to offensively use ‘war deterrent’ ahead of S. Korea-US military exercise
4. Ball in Japan's court after Korea's gesture on forced labor issue
5. [ANALYSIS] Why is AMCHAM donating to fund for Korean victims of Japan's forced labor?
6. Korea, US to kick off joint military drill Monday
7. Artificial intelligence and the future of the Korean economy
8. South Korean Objectives in the Final Frontier
9. [Column] Putting Korea back in the diplomatic game
10. UNC committed to role in allies' 'defensive' drills for mission to guard peace: deputy chief
11. North Korean Fire-Assault Drill
12. Washington’s role in turning North Korea into a garrison state
13. The US, its allies, and North Korea are one wrong move away from disaster
14. [Column] From K-pop to a ‘Hallyu economy’
15. [Editorial] K-pop’s defining moment
16. Springfield Visits Republic of Korea during Indo-Pacific Patrol