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🇰🇷 Seoul Protests Trump and Xi

South Korea is hosting Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Gyeongju (South Korean city) this week as South Korean President Lee Jae-myung tries to tame tariffs. Meanwhile, protesters in the country’s capital chanted “No Trump” and “No China” in adjacent rallies, underscoring a sharp divide in public sentiment.

• Plan: Today (local time), Trump is meeting Lee at Gyeongju Museum, then sitting down with Xi on Thursday. Xi is in South Korea for a three-day visit to Gyeongju for APEC and is scheduled to hold a one-on-one meeting with President Lee on Saturday.

• Trade: On July 31, 2025, Seoul pledged $350 billion in US investments and $100 billion in LNG purchases. After a late‑August White House visit, both sides continued negotiating tariff terms.

  • In principle, Trump agreed to cut tariffs from 25% to 15%, but no final deal has been reached. Washington is now seeking cash funding, while many in South Korea question how the $350 billion would be financed.

• Streets: In protest of Trump and Xi, several hundred marched near the US embassy and Gyeongbokgung, separated by police buses, waving signs like "No Trump," "No China," and "CCP out."

• Optics: However, it should be noted that polling earlier this year put the US as top ally for nearly nine in ten South Koreans, while about a third named China the biggest threat.

  • This highlights, yet again, that these protests may not represent majority opinion, but rather the sentiments of a particularly vocal segment of the population. The presence of hundreds of identical, professionally printed signs also may suggests a coordinated effort by advocacy groups or political organizers.

  • Analysts say Lee is steering to the center and courting Beijing to juice growth and possibly reopen a line to the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un.

🇬🇧 UK Targets Illegal Work

The UK just ramped up a nationwide crackdown on illegal working, touting a 63% jump in arrests year over year. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood set the tone with a clipped "No more."

• Scale: Immigration Enforcement arrested more than 8,000 people in the 12 months to September 2025, up 63% on the prior year.

• Removals: Officials say they have removed over 1,050 foreign nationals since these sweeps intensified.

• Sectors: Targeted operations focus on food delivery riders, beauty salons, and hand car washes, where account sharing and cash-in-hand work remain prevalent.

• Policy: In September, PM Starmer sparked controversy by announcing mandatory digital identity cards for workers as part of a plan to tighten right-to-work checks.

  • Critics call the move a step toward an Orwellian 1984-style social credit and surveillance system, warning that it could pave the way for state overreach and internet monitoring.

  • Supporters, however, argue that digital IDs will streamline employment verification, curb illegal work, and modernize the UK’s outdated identity infrastructure, bringing it in line with systems already used in the EU and parts of Asia.

• Companies: Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats agreed since 2023 to tighter account controls and in July to government data sharing aimed at flagging asylum seekers working illegally.

🇺🇸 US Strikes Narco-Boats

War Secretary Pete Hegseth says the US military launched three lethal strikes on four known drug trafficking boats in the Eastern Pacific, killing 14 alleged narco-terrorists in international waters and leaving one survivor that Mexico’s Navy rescued.

• Details: The boats were targeted along established routes on Monday, with 14 alleged traffickers dead and one pulled from the water about 400 miles southwest of Acapulco.

• Targets: Four vessels were flagged by intelligence for running narcotics along known trafficking routes and tied to designated terrorist organizations.

• Buildup: The US is surging forces to the region, including guided-missile destroyers, F-35s, a nuclear submarine, and the Ford carrier strike group expected in the Caribbean in coming weeks.

🇺🇸 US Revokes Mexico Routes

The US Transportation Department just announced the revocation of approvals for 13 routes by Mexican airlines and canceled all combined passenger and cargo flights to the US from Mexico City’s Felipe Angeles airport. Officials say Mexico violated competition rules and a bilateral aviation deal.

• Timing: Washington issued the order on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, and framed it as immediate enforcement against noncompliance.

• Carriers: Aeromexico, Volaris, and Viva Aerobus lose current or planned services, including Aeromexico’s Felipe Angeles–Houston and Felipe Angeles–McAllen routes.

• Airports: The move freezes growth of Mexican carriers’ belly cargo at Mexico City’s primary Benito Juarez airport and proposes a full belly-cargo ban on Juarez–US routes within about three months if finalized.

• Routes: Disapproved flights include Volaris’s Juarez–Newark and Viva Aerobus’s proposed Felipe Angeles links to Austin, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, and Orlando.

• Message: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Mexico “illegally canceled and froze US carrier flights for three years without consequences” adding the US will keep “holding them accountable.” The department warned travelers to contact airlines for rebooking.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 ISRAEL & GAZA
Ceasefire Frays,
Strikes Resume

Israel says Hamas broke the truce, so Netanyahu ordered new strikes. Hamas says it didn’t, and that Israel is the one playing games with the deal.

Here's what happened. 👇🏼

What Israel Says

• Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered "forceful strikes" in Gaza on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, after accusing Hamas of firing on Israeli troops and failing to return hostages’ bodies.

• A senior Israeli military official, unnamed due to sensitivity, says Hamas attacked Israeli forces in Rafah and is pretending not to know where abducted Israelis’ remains are.

• His office says he decided with the military, then informed President Trump "before the action was taken."

What Hamas Says

• Hamas denies attacking Israeli forces and says it remains committed to the ceasefire agreement.

• It accuses Israel of violating the truce and of fabricating pretexts "to take new aggressive steps."

• Hamas-run civil defense agency’s spokesperson, Mahmud Basal, said that at least 30 were killed, with dozens wounded.

The Video Evidence

• The Israeli military released drone footage it says shows Hamas staging the discovery of a body in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighborhood.

• Three men carry a white body bag into a pit, bury it, then an excavator digs it back up as three Red Cross representatives arrive.

• The Red Cross says its staff "were not aware" of any prior staging and calls such fakery "unacceptable."

• Israel’s Prime Minister’s office says the bag contained partial remains of Ofir Tzarfati, 27, returned Monday, with other remains recovered twice earlier.

Washington’s Line

• Vice President JD Vance says "the ceasefire is holding," describing recent violence as "little skirmishes here and there."

• He adds that "we expect the Israelis are going to respond" when fired upon, while insisting "the president’s peace is going to hold."

Summary & What To Expect

• Israel frames the breach as dual: shots at troops plus delayed remains, which are both explicit parts of the deal.

• Hamas frames it as Israeli escalation for leverage inside a fragile framework.

• Last week, Israel struck sites across Gaza after clashes that killed two Israeli soldiers, yet both sides publicly said they still backed the ceasefire. The pattern is familiar: claim, counterclaim, calibrated force, then another try at restraint.