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4/10/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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04.10.2025 at 01:20pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Army to recode 20,000 parachutist jobs in major airborne restructuring
2. Senior Leaders Say Special Ops Community Aligned With Joint DOD Mission
3. Trump Transforms Tariff War Into High-Stakes Showdown With China
4. Trump Pauses ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs, but Hits China Harder
5. ‘The Economist’ editor unpacks the ‘biggest trade policy shock’ of Trump’s tariffs
6. Trump’s tariff pause brings investors relief—but worries remain
7. Why Trump Blinked on Tariffs Just Hours After They Went Into Effect
8. Donald Trump shoots his own global mouthpiece
9. Panama Hopes Hegseth Visit Turns Page and Ends Trump Pressure
10. Socom: Changing Operational Demands Requires Acquisition Changes
11. Ukraine says more than 150 Chinese mercenaries are fighting for Russia in Ukraine
12. Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing’s Enduring Advantages
13. White House Should Direct Department of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff to Review Strategic Choices on Embassy Crisis Response
14. Lawmakers fearful of SOCOM cuts, possible risk to mission.
15. Trade Wars Are Easy to Lose
16. Trump and Xi Are in a Tariff Trap
17. Total Defense Strategy: How Small Nations Strengthen Resilience and Trust
18.Tyranny of Time & Distance: Logistics & Contested Deployment in LSCO
19. CIA is reviewing its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels
20. Fentanyl Should Not Be Designated as a WMD. Period.
21. Trump Signs Order to Revive US Shipbuilding, DOGE Review of Navy
22. NATO Is a Corpse

Korean News Content:

1. Fact check: Trump falsely claims Biden ‘terminated’ South Korea deal Biden actually made
2. Trump signals U.S. will make defense cost-sharing part of talks for ‘package’ deal on trade, other issues
3. The China, Japan, Korea trilateral FTA
4. Ex-PPP leader Han Dong-hoon announces presidential run
5. Ex-President Yoon to leave presidential residence Friday
6. S. Korea sanctions freight ship, 4 entities for illegal transport of N. Korean iron ore
7. Experts call for prudent, guarded approach to Trump’s proposed ‘package deal’
8. S. Korea to expand interagency task force in response to U.S. tariff measures
9. SK Group chairman meets with TSMC chief for talks on chip cooperation
10. Commander of US Forces Korea: “ROK, US Signed Plan to Respond to North Korean Nuclear Weapons Last Year”
11. North Korea’s Kim likely looking for payback from Putin by ‘Victory Day,’ May 9
12. Seoul requests U.S. support after missile redeployment
13. Editorial: Moon officials undermined THAAD to appease China
14. Knee-length leather coats: N. Korea’s latest status symbol for the elite
15. USFK commander general stresses importance of joint operations plan, alliance with South

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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