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

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05.25.2025 at 03:50pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Trump Lauds Cadets for Choosing Service, Honor Over Civilian Life
2. Russia Launches Massive Aerial Assaults on Ukraine, Defying Trump’s Peace Calls
3. Ukraine Is Offering Money and Perks for Gen Z to Fight
4. Behind Xi’s Strongman Image, a Demanding Father Always Loyal to the Party
5. Trump the central planner
6. Merz backs Nord Stream ban to prevent US and Russia restarting gas link
7. ‘No anti-Americanism in Hiroshima’: Eighty years later, city puts remembrance before retribution
8. The Not-So-Secret Society Whose Members Run State
9. Voice of America’s prospects appear grim after appeals court order
10. Golden Dome creates a new missile defense bargain with US partners
11. America is having its Ming Dynasty moment
12. US brain drain handing the global talent war to China
13. The Spy Factory (Russia and Brazil)
14. Donald Trump betrays one more ally of US in Asia, India’s friend is in danger, China to become…?
15. These Are the U.S. Universities Most Dependent on International Students
16. The Age of Answers Is Over: Training Adaptive Thinkers for Modern Military Realities
17. The CIA Built a Special Helicopter to Sneak Into North Vietnam
18. Things Worth Remembering: ‘Do Not Mourn Me Dead’

Korean News Content:

1. North Korea Detains Officials Blamed for Kim Jong Un’s Capsized Warship
2. North Korean human rights a global issue, speakers tell U.N. General Assembly
3. Donald Trump betrays one more ally of US in Asia, India’s friend is in danger, China to become…?
4. Inside Kim Jong Un’s Threat Perception
5. N. Korea urges U.S. to stop military threats
6. North Korea Makes Arrests Over Failed Ship Launch That Angered Kim Jong-un
7. DP candidate Lee pledges to set up task force to handle economic crisis
8. PPP candidate Kim pledges to keep president out of party affairs
9. South Korea’s Democracy Remains Vulnerable
10. Editorial: Cut in U.S. forces in Korea could become reality—Seoul should be ready
11. North Korea’s failed warship launch underscores its urgent bid for naval power
12. US troop reduction in South Korea
13. Lee Jae-myung signals hesitation on attending June NATO summit if elected

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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