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3/22/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.22.2025 at 05:00pm

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National Security News Content:

1. We are RFA Radio Free Asia.
2. CIA chief Ratcliffe to appoint veteran officer to lead spy operations
3. FBI scales back staffing, tracking of domestic terrorism probes, sources say
4. How the CIA’s ‘Benign Coverup’ After the JFK Assassination Gave Rise to the ‘Deep State’
5. ‘Keep Moving to Survive’: Ukrainians Recount Perilous Retreat From Russian Territory
6. China Explores Limiting Its Own Exports to Mollify Trump
7. What Is the Endgame for Ukraine?
8. A New Era of Undersea Conflict Is Here
9. Don’t Give Up on China’s Democracy Just Yet
10. Why the Pentagon Scuttled Its Briefing of Musk on War Plans
11. Xi Targets Petty Corruption on a Giant Scale to Soothe China’s Masses
12. Why Trump’s global transformation might just succeed
13. Opinion Polls: US Voter Support for Ukraine Is Solid, for White House Foreign Policy– Not So Much
14. How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill
15. ‘How are you going to do that?’ Pentagon scrambles to make Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system a reality
16. Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped

 

Korean News Content:

1. We are RFA Radio Free Asia.
2. Protests Swell in South Korea as Court Weighs President’s Fate
3. US rivals line up for North Korea’s new military drones
4. N. Korean leader vows to ‘invariably’ support Russia’s war against Ukraine
5. S. Korea, Japan, China reaffirm peace on Korean Peninsula ‘shared interest, responsibility’: FM Cho
6. N. Korean ramps up ideological lectures for youth despite growing disinterest
7. S. Korea, U.S. launch working-level talks over ‘sensitive country’ issue
8. S. Korea, U.S. agree to swiftly resolve sensitive country issue
9. Opposition pushes for 30th impeachment
10. Top diplomats of S. Korea, Japan agree to continue exchanges amid improved ties
11. War lessons: Will Ukraine be North Korea’s Vietnam?
12. UN: “Number of defectors continues to decrease due to North Korea’s control of its residents”
13. Shoigu Delivers Putin’s Message to Kim Jong-un… “Possibility of Discussing Additional Military Cooperation”

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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