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5/6/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.06.2025 at 09:58am

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National Security News Content:

1. Forging a new national security alliance (Commander USSOCOM)
2. NDIA POLICY POINTS: SOF’s Past Makes it Perfect for the Future
3. SOCOM Shows Interest in Hybrid, AI-Enabled Vehicles
4. New Maritime Technology for Navy SEALs on the Way
5. Cut the Chaff–Acquisition Revolution at SOCOM in the Age of Irregular Warfare
6. Hegseth orders elimination of 10% of general, admiral jobs
7. Hegseth Used Multiple Signal Chats for Official Pentagon Business
8. How Ukraine’s Cheap Sea Drones Are Revolutionizing Naval Warfare
9. Accepting ‘Ugly Terms’: Is This the Only Path to End the Ukraine War?
10. Ukraine Is A Military Laboratory
11. China’s Expanding View of “Taiwan Independence” and Implications for U.S. Policy
12. Understanding NATO’s Burden-Sharing Debate: Political Rhetoric and Defense Spending Realities
13. How Images of the Dalai Lama Landed a Tibetan Woman in China’s Dragnet
14. Xi Can’t Trust His Own Military
15. Spy Agencies Do Not Think Venezuela Directs Gang, Declassified Memo Shows
16. Trump’s Hope for Gaza Deal Fades as Israel Plans Major Escalation
17. America’s Coming Brain Drain
18. Print, Crash, and Reprint: How the Air Force Should Rethink Small Drones

Korean News Content:

1. Citizens’ movement promotes renewed Korean politics and reunification
2. Joint Press Statement for the 26th Korea-U.S. Integrated Defense Dialogue
3. South Korea Invests Big in Texas
4. PPP candidate suspends campaign amid dispute over candidacy unification
5. Former PM stresses need to unify conservative candidacy ahead of June election
6. Belarusian delegation to visit N. Korea for economic talks
7. DP candidate pledges to expand benefits for military conscripts
8. US, ROK hold defense talks amid questions about Trump policy on North Korea
9. China imports flow to North Korea through strategic border points
10. S. Korean defense giants set to surpass 100 trillion won in combined orders
11. Democratic Party seeks to halt Lee Jae-myung’s trials during campaign
12. “North Korea may provide additional 600mm rocket launchers to Russia”
13. Breaking News: North Korea Launches Mass Production of World’s Most Powerful 600mm Rocket Launcher KN-25

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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