12/15/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News Content:

1. Irregular Warfare Lessons From the Cold War
2. Privatizing Veteran Health Care is a Betrayal, Not A Solution
3. How Israel Turned the Mideast Around
4. Trump Courts Xi Jinping, Slaps Japan
5. US starts relocating Marines from Japan’s Okinawa
6. The Army is too top-heavy
7. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 14, 2024
8. Iran Update, December 14, 2024
9. Key US agency that fights foreign influence in jeopardy after funding snub
10. Has World War III Already Begun?
11. The Hunt for the Assad Dynasty’s Missing Billions Begins
12. CEOs Want Trump to Change Course on Tariffs. He Isn’t Budging.
13. Archduke Ferdinand, blah, blah, blah…What Really Started WWI?
14. Macroscope | Trade protectionist measures by the US and others put world on path to war
15. Assad’s Enemies Are Not Our Friends
16. Dark Eagle: US bares hypersonic claws at China, Russia
17. Commentary: Chinese security companies are putting boots on the ground in Myanmar. It could go disastrously wrong

Korean News Content:

1. Korea’s presidential impeachment: Challenges and lessons for democracy
2. What Does Assad’s Fall Mean For North Korea?
3. South Korean lawmakers impeach President Yoon over failed martial law bid
4. Trump picks ex-Ambassador to Germany Grenell as presidential envoy for special missions on N. Korea, other issues
5. Acting President Han speaks with Biden by phone, reaffirms alliance
6. Prosecutors seek arrest warrant for chief of Army Special Warfare Command in martial law probe
7. Exiled Syrian Diplomat: “North Korea is just a target”
8. President Yoon pledges resilience following impeachment
9. President Yoon impeached, Constitutional Court has 180 days to decide his fate
10. S. Korea’s Democratic Party eyes $3.3 bn budget cut, plans final vote on Dec. 10
11. (Yoon Impeachment) Opposition leader proposes parliamentary-gov’t consultative body on stabilizing state affairs
12. Foreign ambassadors praise S. Korea’s democratic resilience amid Yoon’s impeachment
13. Who is acting President Han Duck-soo?
14. The Impeachment of South Korea’s President, Explained
15. After Impeachment, South Korea Is Left With No Elected Leader

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