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3/24/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.24.2025 at 12:52pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Kari Lake Isn’t Telling the Truth About the VOA
2. What Five Eyes does – and doesn’t – see
3. China Is Ready to Blockade Taiwan. Here’s How.
4. Trump Russia Envoy Echoes Kremlin’s Views on Ukraine Ahead of Peace Talks
5. White House Narrows April 2 Tariffs
6. Building Resistance: How John Steinbeck’s “The Moon Is Down” Shaped WWII Resistance
7. Opinion | He Cut a Secret Deal That Cemented U.S. Economic Power — And He Has a Lesson for Donald Trump
8. Trump’s Pentagon seeks spending on Pacific forces, cuts to environmental and cultural programs
9. Memo lays out plan to replace USAID with new humanitarian agency
10. U.S. Delegation to Visit Greenland as White House Ramps Up Pressure on the Island
11. Pentagon is the latest agency to announce a leak investigation that could include polygraphs
12. China’s Subsidized Shipbuilding: Latest Pillar Industry
13. US looks to make headway on Trump’s ceasefire hopes as Russia talks open in Saudi Arabia
14. Force de l’Europe: How Realistic is a French Nuclear Umbrella?
15. Chiang Kai-shek’s great grandson moves to mainland China as clan builds cross-strait ties
16. Trump turbulence leads allies to rethink reliance on U.S. weapons
17. Seung-Whan Choi: The US should learn from the Korean War when negotiating with Ukraine
18. Europe’s War in Ukraine – The Continent’s Risky Task of Keeping Kyiv in the Fight—and Defending Itself
19. The Coming Global Health Crisis – America Is Retreating, and China Won’t Fill the Void
20. Things Worth Remembering: America Is an Invention
21. US Military: Praetorian Guard or Non-Partisan Policy Instrument?
22. Ukraine’s IT Army is Waging a Crowdsourced Cyber War Against Russia

Korean News Content:

1. Kari Lake Isn’t Telling the Truth About the VOA
2. [Contribution] Let’s break VOA’s silence with VOK
3. Constitutional Court dismisses impeachment of Prime Minister Han
4. DOE chief says ‘sensitive’ country issue will not undermine S. Korea-U.S. cooperation: official
5. DOE’s ‘sensitive country’ listing related to technology security review: S. Korean FM
6. Taiwan signs onto $44 billion Alaska LNG project, daring Korea to follow
7. North Korea condemns South Korea-U.S. Freedom Shield drills as ‘nuclear war rehearsal’
8. Press statement by Institute for Disarmament and Peace of DPRK Foreign Ministry (denouncing ROK/US military exercises)
9. North Korea inspects Civil Defense Corps’ armory for ‘wild boar hunting’
10. Korea: “Shoigu’s visit to North Korea is unusual…Possibility of major North Korea-Russia talks”
11. N. Korea halts foreign tourism abruptly amid concerns over influencers
12. Elite Ukraine soldier reveals how he got North Korean fighter to surrender
13. North Korea shouldn’t be rewarded for role in Ukraine war: Seoul’s top diplomat
14. PM’s return (South Korea)
15. North Korea is testing weapons in Ukraine for potential use against South, envoy warns
16. Seung-Whan Choi: The US should learn from the Korean War when negotiating with Ukraine

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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