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

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03.25.2025 at 01:27pm

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National Security News Content:

1. The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
2. Top Trump Officials Debated War Plans on Unclassified Chat Shared With Journalist
3. What the Trump War-Plan Chat Reveals
4. ANALYSIS: Why were U.S. War plans sent to a reporter?
5. Steve Witkoff Takes the Kremlin’s Side
6. Pentagon’s use of commercial telecoms draw scrutiny after Chinese breaches
7. Still ‘Raging Against the Machines’: Preventive Defense in the Age of Social Media Platforms
8. Russia and Ukraine Hold U.S.-Mediated Talks: What to Know
9. How a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl’s 40,000 Ton Shield
10. Is Russia an Adversary or a Future Partner? Trump’s Aides May Have to Decide.
11. DOGE’s Real Challenge in the Pentagon Isn’t Slashing the Workforce, It’s Boosting Productivity
12. How China Beat Out the U.S. to Become the Top Player in Rare-Earths Refining
13. Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers
14. Trump’s Advisers Are Divided on Iran. Which Way Is the President Leaning?
15. Innovating Under Fire: Lessons from Ukraine’s Frontline Drone Workshops
16. China Has Already Remade the International System
17. Ukraine will need major rebuilding when war ends − here’s why the US isn’t likely to invest in its recovery with a new Marshall Plan
18. Funding for R&D isn’t a gift to academia By Todd Young and Matt Pottinger
19. F-47 Was Born Out Of Secret X-Planes Built By Both Boeing And Lockheed
20. China’s Tech Triple Play Threatens U.S. National Security
21. A Call to Restore U.S. Military Medical Supremacy
22. A New Asian Bloc in the Making?
23. What should come after DEI? PFJ.

Korean News Content:

1. A New Asian Bloc in the Making?
2. North Korea accuses Trump administration of ‘gambling’ on war after military drills
3. U.S. reaffirms commitment to working with S. Korea under acting President Han
4. Acting president calls for respecting Constitutional Court’s decision on Yoon’s impeachment
5. Hyundai to invest $21B in US as Trump touts tariff policy win
6. North Korea’s suspected bitcoin holdings surpass Tesla’s
7. UNHRC adopts final report on review of N. Korean human rights
8. Russia agrees to N.K. doctors’ internships in Moscow hospitals, pharmaceuticals modernization
9. Ministry says S. Korea, U.S. consulting on high-level communication amid hopes for Han-Trump call
10. S. Korea expresses ‘deep regret’ over Japan’s approval of textbooks distorting history
11. KAI, Korean Air make bids for Black Hawk helicopter upgrade project
12. Acting President Han, Alaska Gov. discuss energy cooperation
13. N. Korea doubles foreign currency quotas for overseas workers
14. N. Korean security ministry launches manhunt for missing reconstruction workers
15. North Korean troops sent to Russia included relatives of defectors: report
16. Emergency fundraiser looks to save North Korean human rights NGOs after US cuts

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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