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3/23/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.23.2025 at 04:31pm

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National Security News Content:

1. I Trained with the Best US Special Forces – THIS Shocked Me (Video)

2. China’s Own Elon Musks Are Racing to Catch Up to SpaceX

3. U.S. Directs a Second Aircraft Carrier to the Middle East

4. Ukrainians Don’t Trust Russia on Cease-Fires, as the Killing Usually Doesn’t Stop

5. It’s Time for the Government to Get More Involved in Cybersecurity

6. DOGE USAID budget cuts hit UN in ‘worst liquidity crisis since its establishment’

7. SpaceX Positioned to Secure Billions in New Federal Contracts Under Trump

8. Why China’s Soft Power in Taiwan Has Failed

9. The Office That Won the Cold War, RIP

10. Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims

11. How Israel plans to escalate its war on Hamas in Gaza

12. ‘In the face of the US president’s astonishing shift, Europe suddenly appears as a familiar and reassuring presence’

13. America’s European allies are trying to pry their unspent money back from USAID

14. Voice of America journalists sue Trump officials for dismantling the outlet

15. Opinion | The ‘Free World’ Is Gone and There’s No Turning Back

16. How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill

17. New satellite images show the damage after Ukraine struck a bomber base deep inside Russia

18. For Vladimir Putin, Russia’s position in the world is personal. Here’s what he really wants

 

Korean News Content:

1. I Trained with the Best US Special Forces – THIS Shocked Me (Video)

2. Korean politics faces ‘super week’ of landmark rulings

3. Critical week lies ahead as nation awaits verdicts on PM, opposition leader

4. At Least 4 Die After Nearly 30 Wildfires Erupt in South Korea

5. Yoon offers condolences for wildfire victims

6. What Korea can learn and prepare for after two months of Trump

7. S. Korea battles multiple wildfires in southeastern region amid strong dry winds

8. North Korea’s Nuclear-Powered Missile Submarine: A Mystery Wrapped Around a Riddle and an Enigma

9. North Korea tests new anti-aircraft missile system, threatens ‘deadly’ response to U.S.-South Korea drills

10. Shoigu visit to Pyongyang hints at possible third North Korean deployment to Kursk

11. Korean politics: Where did we go wrong?

12. US global troop repositioning

13. Captured N. Korean soldiers not bargaining chip for Ukraine: top envoy

14. U.N. Human Rights Council to address concerns over N. Korea’s troop dispatch to Russia

15. U.S. Treasury Lifts Tornado Cash Sanctions Amid North Korea Money Laundering Probe

16. Germany rules out reopening Pyongyang embassy amid N. Korea-Russia military ties

 

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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