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3/3/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.03.2025 at 12:07pm

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National Security News Content:

1. What Do We Stand For? by Hy Rothstein
2. Failure Mechanisms in Democratic Regimes – an Army’s Role (The Angry Staff Officer)
3. Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia
4. Rubio Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4 Billion in Arms
5. Zelensky’s Path Back to White House Would Confront Big Hurdles
6. Trump’s Old World Order
7. ‘Propaganda Girls’ Review: A Game of Subversion
8. NATO Is Dead: An Oval Office Meeting That Changed NATO Forever
9. Ukrainians Are Weary but Determined to End War on Just Terms
10. Volodymyr Zelensky Has Only Himself To Blame
11. Senior USAID official ousted after detailing problems providing life-saving aid
12. How to Protect NATO and Other Alliances From Trump
13. Is Civility Possible Again?
14. What Average Americans Think of Trump’s Showdown with Zelensky
15. How DeepSeek’s small team of liberal arts graduates transforms AI text generation in China
16. Europe’s Moment of Truth: The Transatlantic Alliance Is Under Grave Threat—but Not Yet Doomed
17. Willpower, Not Manpower, is Europe’s Main Limitation for a Force in Ukraine
18. Trump is reorienting America’s moral compass

Korean News Content:

1. [Washington Talk] “China and North Korea’s Spy Activities Are Rampant, Aiming to Undermine South Korea’s Legitimacy”
2. Another large ship enters Rajin Port in North Korea… Estimated 3,000 containers traded this year alone
3. Deepening divide over Yoon’s impeachment spreads to universities
4. PPP leadership to visit former President Park Geun-hye ahead of Yoon impeachment ruling
5. North Korean tour guides know about soldiers dispatched to Ukraine war, tourist says
6. To the ruling and opposition parties who undermined democracy: No more street politics
7. The only exit for the embattled Lee Jae-myung: A constitutional amendment
8. Kim Jong-un, Focusing on Building Local Factories… Not Sure on the Effect
9. North Korea Is Open. Who’s Going?
10. Korea Expert Jean Lee Named East-West Center’s Inaugural Presidential ChairKorea Expert Jean Lee Named East-West Center’s Inaugural Presidential Chair
11. A North Korean POW wants to resettle in the South. The law may stand in the way
12. Presence of U.S. aircraft carrier in S. Korea demonstrates strengthening alliance: U.S. admiral
13. Ex-President Park calls for unity within ruling party ahead of Yoon impeachment ruling
14. Editorial: Political strife overshadows the spirit of Korea’s March 1 movement

About The Author

  • David Maxwell is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel who has spent more than 30 years in the Asia Pacific region (primarily Korea, Japan, and the Philippines) as a practitioner, specializing in Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He is the Vice President of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines during the war on terrorism and is the former J5 and Chief of Staff of the Special Operations Command Korea, and G3 of the US Army Special Operations Command. Following retirement, he was the Associate Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the OSS Society, on the board of advisers of Spirit of America, and is a contributing editor to Small Wars Journal.

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