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4/26/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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04.26.2025 at 08:04pm

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National Security News Content:

  1. Pentagon Prepared Briefing for Musk on Top Secret U.S. Weapons for China War
  2. Hegseth Dismisses Members of Pentagon Advisory Boards
  3. China Quietly Exempts Some U.S.-Made Products From Tariffs
  4. CIA official’s son killed fighting with Russian army in Ukraine
  5. Trump’s Campus Crackdown Reaches Far Beyond Ivy League Schools
  6. We Fight Tonight: Corps Capabilities for a Contested Indo-Pacific – Seapower
  7. How Marines are 3D Printing Lethality Behind Enemy Lines – Seapower
  8. Trump Meets With Zelensky in Vatican City
  9. Conflicting US-China talks statements add to global trade confusion
  10. Ideological purges reduce deterrence, readiness, and effectiveness. Just ask Stalin
  11. China’s military aims to harness the coming ‘ChatGPT for robotics’
  12. The Army is preparing a generative AI workspace to improve daily operations
  13. How the Vietnam War Ended: The Vietnamese Communists’ Perspective
  14. Defense Innovation Unit to expand US outposts with three new hubs
  15. Failed Iran Hostage Rescue Continues to Teach Lessons 45 Years Later
  16. Trump’s attacks on media test US press freedom rules
  17. Trump Attends Pope Francis’ Funeral, Meets With Zelensky
  18. 1st Lt. Gabrielle White is the first woman to finish the Best Ranger Competition. See what she endured in the grueling 3-day event.
  19. ‘100-year timeframe’: how Project 2025 is guiding Trump’s attack on government
  20. Executive orders, tariffs and lawsuits: How the ‘deep state’ is outmanoeuvring Trump

Korean News Content:

  1. N. Korea uses key military anniv. to urge allegiance to leader Kim
  2. In a first, Russia confirms North Korea’s involvement in Ukraine war
  3. North Korea launches largest new warship, states aim to sail beyond peninsula
  4. Acting President Han calls for efforts to upgrade democracy amid speculation on presidential bid
  5. South Korea’s Fragile Democracy, Yet Resilient – Analysis
  6. [WHY] All in the family: How chaebol drove Korea’s growth — and deepened its divides
  7. Ask a North Korean: What’s the biggest falsehood you’ve heard about the DPRK?
  8. More signs point to acting president entering June 3 election race
  9. Lee Jae-myung likely on glide path to Democratic Party of Korea nomination
  10. Seoul, Washington move toward July trade deal; skip defense burden talks

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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