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3/27/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.27.2025 at 11:56am

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National Security News Content:

1. The Swedish handbook: “In Case of Crisis or War” (Official Resistance & Resilience Brochure for Citizens)
2. Actions create consequences: contempt – the clearer term for entitlement by Cynthia Watson
3. China swoops in to replace Asian USAID projects axed by Trump
4. Trump Takes Tough Approach to Choking Off China’s Access to U.S. Tech
5. Not Just for US Veterans: 7 Medical Breakthroughs the VA Gave to the World
6. New nuclear arms race looms as US threatens to pull atomic shield
7. Trump’s Strategy for Signal Chat Fallout: Attack, Attack, Attack
8. White House taps Musk to investigate Signal chat mishap
9. Trump shifts Greenland approach amid blowback, Signal scandal
10. Chipping Away a Long-Standing Alliance: The Impact of Tech Restriction Communications on US-Polish Relations
11. Book Review | The Restless Wave: Historical Fiction and the Moral Hazards of War
12. Europe Confronts Reality That Vance’s Hostility Is More Than Just a Show
13. The Group Chat from Hell
14. The real scandal: Those chatty Trump officials’ loathing of U.S. allies
15. Signal leak sparks new calls for modernized messaging options from defense officials
16. Hegseth seeks to reassure jittery allies, partners during inaugural Pacific trip
17. Inside the Norwegian Resistance: Secret Operations in WWII
18. Donald Trump’s Russia Strategy Could End NATO as We Know It
19. China Sees Opportunity in Trump’s Upheaval
20. Dan ‘Razin’ Caine, Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, set to testify at confirmation hearing
21. Chinese Nationals Arrested on Espionage Charges Tracked Philippine, U.S. Vessels at Subic Bay
22. Philippines wants India, South Korea to join ‘Squad’ amid China tensions

Korean News Content:

1. Ministry of Unification: “North Korea to prioritize Russia-China relations in the first half of the year… hostile wait-and-see approach toward South Korea and the US”
2. North Korean officials in China seen pretending to be South Korean
3. Seoul envoy calls on N. Korea to stop sacrificing its people to sustain regime in return for Russia’s support
4. N. Korea releases photos of what appears to be airborne control aircraft for 1st time
5. N. Korea presumed to send at least 3,000 more troops to Russia: JCS
6. Preparations under way for N. Korean leader Kim’s visit to Russia this year: reports
7. S. Korea’s potential participation in Alaska LNG project to look ‘favorably’ in tariff talks with U.S.: Dunleavy
8. Hyundai Motor opens 3rd U.S. production plant in Georgia
9. South Korea’s International Adoption Program Violated Rights of Children, Commission Finds
10. Even a $14,000 Government Handout Can’t Get South Korea’s Singles to Marry
11. Pyongyang confiscates most of salaries from its troops in Russia
12. Starting young: N. Korean textbook reveals indoctrination of kindergarteners
13. N. Korea launches crackdown on unlocked TVs in border regions
14. Hegseth seeks to reassure jittery allies, partners during inaugural Pacific trip
15. N. Korean junior officials lose sleep as superiors delegate ideological study work
16. N. Korea prepares workers for Russian reconstruction projects in occupied Ukraine
17. Philippines wants India, South Korea to join ‘Squad’ amid China tensions

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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