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4/29/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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04.29.2025 at 11:53am

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National Security News Content:

1. De Oppresso Liber – Applying Green Beret Identify and Ethos to Build U.S. Military Resiliency
2. Pete Hegseth wants to rename the Defense Department. Why it matters.
3. ‘Tale of 2 Petes’: Fired adviser describes Pentagon chief consumed by image
4. ‘I Run the Country and the World’ (President Trump interview in the Atlantic)
5. Five key quotes from Trump’s interview with The Atlantic
6. Political Warfare against Intervention Forces
7. FBI, national security agencies using polygraphs for ‘leak’ hunts
8. How data wrecked American warfare – Robert McNamara remade the military
9. The Kellogg Framework Is A Disaster For Trump – OpEd
10. Niall Ferguson: Donald Trump Is Crushing His To-Do List
11. Censorship is far more dangerous than free speech
12. Get Ready for the Aleutian Island Crisis
13. Actions create consequences – representation and consequences by Cynthia Watson
14. Heading for Divorce? The Ideological War Threatening NATO
15. NATO Needs to Be Terminated
16. Playing the Long Game: 6 Habits That Set Strategic Leaders Apart
17. The Truth About The Chinese AI Video Mocking Efforts To Revitalize American Manufacturing
18. China Pushed a Hard Sell on Autonomous Driving. After a Deadly Crash, It’s Pulling Back.
19. Annexing Greenland: Six Questions
20. Beyond Collection: Building Publicly Available Information Systems for Strategic Effect
21. How China Armed Itself for the Trade War
22. An Attack on America’s Universities Is an Attack on American Power
23. Modernization as Readiness in the U.S. Marine Corps
24. Haiti Is a Political and Criminal Crisis that Should Not be Ignored
25. Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: First 100 Days
26. Amid Syria troop reduction, will Trump repeat Middle East withdrawal mistakes?

Korean News Content:

1. Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: First 100 Days – KOREA
2. Why North Korea finally came clean on its military support for Russia’s war
3. Kim Jong Un’s cryptic reference to new maritime border raises naval stakes
4. US, South Korea rehearse nuclear attack response in tabletop exercise
5. HRNK President and CEO Greg Scarlatoiu Visits South Korea for Special Lectures on North Korean Human Rights
6. Seoul labels North Korea’s role in Ukraine war an ‘inhumane, illegal act’
7. Moscow releases video of Russian and North Korean soldiers fighting Ukraine
8. China tight-lipped on North Korea’s Russia troop deployment confirmation
9. S. Korea-led int’l monitoring group set to release 1st report on N.K. sanctions
10. JCS chief urges firm readiness against N.K. threats in border islands visit
11. Supreme Court to rule on DP presidential candidate’s election law violation case Thursday
12. Trump Jr. arrives in Seoul for meeting with biz leaders amid tariff concerns
13. PPP presidential primary narrowed to 2 final contenders
14. Editorial: Han Duck-soo’s presidential bid requires clear explanation
15. South Korean shipbuilders secure $2 bn in containership orders amid U.S.-China tensions
16. U.S. explores possibility of reviving North Korea dialogue
17. Conscription or volunteer army: Presidential hopefuls revive military reform debate

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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