1/5/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News Content:

1. Burton L. Gerber, CIA officer who boosted Cold War spying, dies at 91
2. Dark Money’ Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks. A New Report Shows It’s Worse Than You Think.
3. The Militia and the Mole
4. Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish satirical cartoon of Bezos and Trump
5. The Pentagon is Panicking Over Venezuela’s Peykaap-III Missile Boats
6. How Chinese Hackers Graduated From Clumsy Corporate Thieves to Military Weapons
7. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 4, 2025
8. Iran Update, January 4, 2025
9. Biden Honors Navy SEAL Whose Innovations Transformed Battlefield Care
10. 8 Simmering Threats You Shouldn’t Ignore in 2025
11. Global Mining’s Dangerous New Reality: Guns, Hostages, Arrests
12. New Orleans attacker had a transmitter to set off explosive devices, F.B.I. says
13. The Islamic State Is a Franchise Now
14. How Israel’s ‘Operation Grim Beeper’ rattled global spy chiefs
15. Is your car spying on you? What it means that Tesla shared data in the Las Vegas explosion
16. Trump Sees the U.S. as a ‘Disaster.’ The Numbers Tell a Different Story.
17. Trump, Hegseth and the Honor of the American Military

Korean News Content:

1. Sydney Seiler: “Trump is busy, Korea is vulnerable… North Korea’s provocation is a good time” [Washington Report]
2. Trump picks aide involved in planning summits with Kim as senior White House official
3. Zelenskyy says Russia lost battalion of N. Korean soldiers in 2 days in Kursk region: report
4. Court dismisses Yoon’s objection to execution of detention warrant
5. Presidential security chief booked for insurrection charges in martial law probe
6. Yoon to testify at his impeachment trial: lawyer
7. Rallies for, against Yoon’s impeachment take place for 3rd day near presidential residence
8. Blinken wades into political crisis with stop in South Korea
9. Choi calls for safety of civil servants, citizens during law execution
10. Navy conducts first maritime drills this year
11. 2 engines of crashed Jeju Air jet moved to hangar for investigation
12. 8 Simmering Threats You Shouldn’t Ignore in 2025
13. U.S. Congress “Renews Adoption of Bill to Reauthorize North Korean Human Rights Act”
14. Who is Kim Jong-un’s next military target for Russia?

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