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5/3/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.03.2025 at 12:23pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. America Is Handing China a Massive Victory
2. 11 top contenders to replace Waltz as national security adviser
3. The Future of SOF … What I Learned at Georgetown University—and Why Speculative Futures Matter. by Isaiah Wilson III
4. Operation Neptune Spear: What We Still Learn from the Mission that Killed bin Laden
5. RFA announces mass layoffs, shutdown of major language services
6. Trump administration plans major downsizing at U.S. spy agencies
7. C.I.A. Aims to Recruit Chinese Nationals With New Videos
8. Play It Again R.E.M.: Band Re-Releases Anthem In Support Of Radio Free Europe
9. Top Republican Mutinies Over Trump’s Meager Military Budget
10. U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids
11. Trump Should Rein In Taiwan
12. Trump is destroying 100 years of competitive advantage in 100 days
13. U.S. Economy Shows Remarkable Resilience in Face of Trade Turmoil
14. A Not So Radical Trump Budget
15. Trump Is Undermining 3 Key US Advantages Over China
16. US security policy in Asia shows some continuity in sea of change
17. America is in Asia, but not of Asia
18. Strengthening Nuclear Deterrence in the Far East

Korean News Content:

1. “North Korea is now in a state of ideological confusion… It must be filled with external information” [Washington Report]
2. Back-to-Back Resignations Throw South Korea’s Acting Presidency Into Turmoil
3. After Ukraine, Trump might renew his North Korea peace-deal quest
4. US security policy in Asia shows some continuity in sea of change
5. America is in Asia, but not of Asia
6. Strengthening Nuclear Deterrence in the Far East
7.  Kim Moon-soo tapped presidential candidate for People Power Party
8. Russia-N. Korea partnership will impact Trump’s leverage in diplomacy toward Pyongyang: expert
9. Security tightened for presidential candidate Lee amid alleged threats
10. Hegseth orders crafting of 2025 defense strategy to prioritize allies’ burden sharing, China deterrence
11. S. Korea, U.S. agree to further cooperate to achieve shared security goals for Korean Peninsula, Indo-Pacific
12. 2nd high-level APEC preparatory meeting begins in Jeju
13. A free and unified Korea: advancing U.S. national security interests

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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