12/11/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. Pentagon formalizes conventional forces’ role in irregular warfare, but will it stick?
2. US National Retreat Strategy leaves Asia to manage consequences
3. How a U.S. admiral decided to kill two boat strike survivors
4. U.S. Steps Up Campaign Against Maduro in Seizing Tanker Off Venezuela
5. U.S. Flies Bombers in High-Profile Show of Support for Japan
6. Taiwan Invokes National Security Law to Protect TSMC Trade Secrets
7. U.S. Investors Are Going Big on China AI Despite Concerns in Congress
8. Hegseth’s G2 description for US-China ties ‘problematic’: House Democrat warns
9. US commission wants more Mandarin language courses to curb Beijing’s sway
10. Should Opec worry? China joins US shale oil revolution with new fracking tech
11. China’s AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity From World’s Biggest Grid
12. Hegseth, counterparts praise AUKUS ‘commitment’ after arrangement survives Pentagon review
13. Irregular Warfare at Sea: How Russia’s Shadow Fleet Undermines Maritime Security
14. Air and Missile Defense and Point Defense in Near-Peer Conflict: A Joint Doctrine and ACE Imperative
15. Remembering Political Prisoners Across China On Human Rights Day1
16. Modernizing Efforts: Psychological Operations Showcases Cutting-Edge Innovation
17. MACARTHUR AND THE ART OF INFORMATION WARFARE
18. Europe’s Positional Defense Opportunity
19. The Death of the Triangular Patrol Base?
20. The Price of American Authoritarianism
21. We Might Regret Golden Dome’s Greatest Ambition
22. Another way to get supplies past the enemy: ghost-fleet tactics
23. China Is Quietly Breaking America’s Pacific Defense Chain
24. Musk says DOGE was only “somewhat successful,” wouldn’t do it again
25. At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
Korean News:
1. US National Retreat Strategy leaves Asia to manage consequences
2. A Life Amid Spies: The Two Koreas
3. Keeping joint military drill adjustment open to consultation may help revive dialogue with N. Korea: minister
4. N. Korea’s Kim delivers ‘important conclusion’ at party plenary meeting: KCNA
5. Sen. Andy Kim voices concern over U.S. security strategy’s ‘deprioritization’ of Korean Peninsula
6. 1 Army corporal in JSA security battalion suffers gunshot wound during training
7. Hunting For North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
8. U.S. military to retake control of all Osan Air Base gate access from S. Korea
9. S. Korea to open rare metals cooperation center in Mongolia this week
10. Defense media agency chief fired for allegedly abusing editorial authority
11. Chung Supports Third-Country Tourism to North Korea via Agencies
12. Trump says North Korea has strongest border in the world: “7 walls of wire”
13. Cartier, Chanel Seen in North Korea’s Elite Stores
14. Unification Church bribery scandal rocks Lee gov’t
15. Seoul must update view of shifting US policy world
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