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3/30/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.30.2025 at 03:53pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints
2. As Military Spending Soars, Demand for Spy-Proof Real Estate Booms
3. Trump administration targets US Institute of Peace with mass Friday firings
4. Final Cuts Will Eliminate U.S. Aid Agency in All but Name
5. Hegseth Orders Civilian Workforce Realignment in DOD, Reopens DRP
6. ‘Should I Fire Him?’ Inside Trump’s Deliberations Over the Fate of Michael Waltz
7. Security Breaches Can Be Fixed. People Without Honor Can’t Be Trusted.
8. Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon
9. French companies shocked by US embassy letter demanding they respect Trump’s anti-diversity policy
10. The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine
11. Ukraine will resist ‘with their bare hands’ if forced into unjust peace, CIA chief says
12. Is the U.S. Military Ready for Tomorrow’s Wars?
13. Taiwan Dares to Hope Trump Will Back It Against Beijing
14. Defense Secretary Announces U.S. Forces Japan’s Upgrade to Joint Force Command
15. Green Beret killed in 2017 firefight in Niger to be awarded Silver Star
16. What to Know About Trump’s Order Taking Aim at the Smithsonian
17. We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now

Korean News Content:

1. [US expert diagnosis] “Trump recognizes ‘free ride’ in South Korea…”Comprehensive cooperation plan should be presented” (comprehensive)
2. Editorial: Supreme Court must deliver a swift verdict on Lee Jae-myung
3. N. Korea-Russia relations strengthen despite Ukraine peace talks
4. Trade chiefs of S. Korea, China, Japan discuss advancing trade cooperation at three-way meeting
5. Main blaze in massive wildfire contained in Sancheong after nearly 10 days
6. South Korea’s nuclear ambitions: self-defense or risky gamble?
7. South Korea ready to assist Myanmar, Thailand in earthquake relief efforts
8. Rival parties accuse each other of insurrection as political crisis drags on
9. Korean Embassy in Myanmar dispatches consul to stricken Mandalay as Seoul offers $2 million in earthquake relief
10. Korea to earmark additional $6.8 billion for wildfire recovery and tariff defense
11. Gyeongsang wildfires declared contained as police book man suspected of starting blaze
12. ＜Inside N. Korea＞Four Struggling Female Students Expelled and Banished to Rural Areas for Prostitution: Young People’s Violation of Order Met with Harsh Punishment
13. RFA Wins Gracie Award for Report on ‘Forced Repatriation of North Korean Defectors’
14. [WHY] Why do so many Korean men enlist during college?

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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