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5/15/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.15.2025 at 01:42pm

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National Security News Content:

1. FM 1 THE ARMY: A PRIMER ON OUR PROFESSION OF ARMS
2. The Risk of War in the Taiwan Strait Is High—and Getting Higher
3. Trump’s Pledge to the Middle East: No More ‘Lectures on How to Live’
4. Indo-Pacom Commander Highlights Army’s Regional Contribution
5. General Clark Underscores Land Power’s Pivotal Role in Indo-Pacific Security at LANPAC
6. Army prepping for Pacific conflict with prepositioned equipment, logistics hubs
7. Pacific multidomain task forces are looking for long-range drones
8. Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters
9. Navy SEAL takes command of year-old Joint Task Force-Micronesia
10. Army task forces ‘centerpiece’ for deterring China: INDOPACOM boss
11. FROM HYPERSONICS TO ALLIANCES: RUSSIA’S EMERGING THREATS TO U.S. AND NATO SECURITY
12. New Joint Chiefs boss steps into role with prelude to high-stakes NATO summit
13. Claims a Fired Air Force General Was Sentenced to Death Have Spread Online. They’re Not True.
14. Beijing is a ‘red line’: Hungary vows it won’t decouple from China if pushed by Trump
15. Taiwanese celebrities caught up in military conscription evasion scandal
16. Taipei in Four Days
17. The Logics of Military Force: Or, How India and Pakistan Fought Each Other and Didn’t Use the Bomb
18. US lawmakers mull State Department shake-up as trade partners seek new alliances
19. Asia without America, part 2: Japan’s Tang renaissance
20. Asia’s Population Lessons For Donald Trump
21. ‘Russians need to be taught a lesson’ – why foreign soldiers keep fighting for Ukraine amid growing uncertainty
22. Asia’s Role In the US Shipbuilding Surge

Korean News Content:

1. U.S. experts voice concerns over Lee Jae-myung’s foreign policy stance
2. Military chief inspects naval readiness, calls for deterrence against N.K.
3. PPP’s interim leader calls for ex-President Yoon to leave party
4. DP’s Lee rallies in liberal stronghold; PPP’s Kim apologizes for martial law decree
5. Asia’s Role In the US Shipbuilding Surge
6. Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Says It Will Conduct First-Ever Joint Exercise With South Korean Marine Corps
7. Shinsegae Chairman Chung Yong-jin meets Trump at Qatar state dinner
8. APEC trade ministers meet in S. Korea amid global trade tension
9. Top S. Korean, U.S. trade negotiators hold talks at APEC meeting
10. USTR Greer holds talks with Chinese trade envoy Li Chenggang: Seoul officials
11. DP’s Lee leads PPP’s Kim 49 pct to 27 pct: poll
12. Tour program to Panmunjom to be resumed this week
13. Drone that allegedly flew over Pyongyang closely resembles ROK asset: Report
14. Number of North Korean defectors in South’s public sector hits record high
15. How Lee Jae-myung wants to reshape foreign policy (IMPORTANT READ)
16. Kim Moon-soo compares Yoon impeachment to ‘communist states like North Korea’
17. ‘Championing justice, human rights and good values still in US 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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