8/1/22 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 31 (Putin's War)

2. 1st ship carrying Ukrainian grain leaves the port of Odesa

3. Pelosi meets Singapore leaders at start of Asia tour

4. Opinion | The U.S. is a lot stronger than Russia. We should act like it.

5. Readout of AUKUS Joint Steering Group Meetings

6. Army may restructure brigade combat teams amid recruiting woes

7. Ukraine seeks to retake the south, tying down Russian forces

8. Russia pulls some Wagner forces from Africa for Ukraine: Townsend

9. Ukraine is Hitting Russian SAMs With HIMARS; US Considers Future Aviation Contribution

10. China conducts military exercise opposite Taiwan

11. West eases efforts to restrict Russian oil trading as inflation and energy risks mount

12.  Inside an international network of teenage neo-Nazi extremists

13. Let the Air Force let go of the E-3 ‘Sentry’

14. Russian operative used U.S. activist groups to spread propaganda, feds say

15. Russia Opens Pandora's Box – Serbia and China Threaten War

16. FDD | Tehran, the Day After

17. U.S. deploys ships and planes near Taiwan as Pelosi eyes visit

18. Russia’s war viewed from China

19. China on the Offensive

20. Joe Biden's Foreign Policy Boils Down to One Word: Weakness​ By John Bolton

21. ‘Brink of a major revolution’: Pentagon-funded drug trial may end venomous snakebite scourge

22. New OSINT foundation aims to ‘professionalize’ open source discipline across spy agencies

Korean News Content:

1. S. Korea needs to make clear principle of accepting 'all' N.K. defectors: minister

2. Kim Jong-un's Security Beefed up After Abe Assassination

3. S. Korea, US to hold EDSCG in September

4. Sanctions and Donetsk bring Moscow, Pyongyang together

5. N. Koreans are using around 10 programs to circumvent Big Brother's watchful eye

6. China wants to hold Yoon Suk-yeol to the 'Three No's'

7. Foreign ministry files argument in forced labor case

8. New U.N. rapporteur vows to improve N.K. human rights situation

9. N. Korea reports no new suspected COVID-19 cases for 3rd day: state media

10. N. Korea's defense minister congratulates China on its military's founding anniversary

11. Upcoming combined drill to heighten inter-Korean tensions

12. Two possible reasons behind recent mask-free gatherings in North Korea

13. FM says U.S.-led chip alliance not designed to exclude China

14. S. Korea, US, Japan start Pacific Dragon ballistic missile defense drill this week

15. Upcoming South Korea-US training involves drills on repelling attacks, staging counterattacks

16. Edging toward war