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5/27/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.27.2025 at 12:58pm

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National Security News Content:

1. The Case for a Pacific Defense Pact

2. Trump Weighs Sanctions Against Russia as Relationship With Putin Sours

3. The U.S. Reinforces Europe’s Northern Front, Fearing War With Russia

4. The U.S. Senate Won’t Tolerate Putin’s Games

5. Time for a GOP Senate Revolt on Sanctions Against Putin

6. China’s Soft Spot in Trade War With Trump: Risk of Huge Job Loss

7. What Trump Gets Right About China

8. China Is Preparing a “Pearl Harbor” Attack on America, US General Warns

9. Retired general issues terrifying warning about China mining the moon

10. Securing the Flow: Addressing the National Security Vulnerabilities in the US Water Supply

11. The Coming Water Wars: Technology’s Unseen Role in a Growing Crisis

12. Special Operations News – Tuesday, May 27, 2025

13. Trump honors fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, while attacking Biden and judges

14. Reports on China’s victory are greatly exaggerated

15. Russia can attack Europe 2-4 years after war’s end, faster with lifted sanctions, Ukrainian intel chief warns

16. Fiona Hill: Trump is terrified of Putin, I’ve seen it first hand

17. These Are The Key Strategic Areas Where China Is Building Overseas Ports

18. ‘For Europe to become the new leader of the free world, it must act with courage and conviction’

19. U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data

20. A turning point in strategic thought on Asia policy?

21. ‘It needs to be a thousand’: US has 500 military trainers on Taiwan, retired admiral says

22. How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over Taiwan

23. An American Problem – We cannot afford to excuse, indulge, or minimize political violence.

24. Veterans recoil at Trump plan to end Afghans’ deportation protection

25. Majority of Americans believe President must obey court rulings: New poll

26. Commentary: China seeks to remind the world of its rules, with new national security white paper

27. Lights out: Trump silences a lonely bastion of journalistic integrity in Asia.

Korean News Content:

1. The ‘quiet’ crisis brewing between the US and South Korea
2. A turning point in strategic thought on Asia policy?
3. South Korea: A simple guide to the 2025 presidential election
4. The Case for a Pacific Defense Pact
5. Lights out: Trump silences a lonely bastion of journalistic integrity in Asia.
6. Jeju peace forum to kick off this week with focus on regional, global security challenges
7. Interagency meeting held to discuss maritime zone row with China
8. S. Korea to send invitations to APEC member states as soon as new gov’t launches
9. S. Korea to bolster cooperation with World Bank in helping developing nations: ministry
10. Ex-White House official highlights need for intelligence sharing to prevent cyberattacks
11. Inside Korea’s shipyards, a new kind of workforce is taking shape
12. Editorial: S. Korea holds the cards in industries Trump wants most
13.  North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons and Missile Programs
14. North Korean security chief departs for Moscow, expected to meet Sergei Shoigu
15. ROK man arrested for helping North Korea rake in millions from gambling sites
16. ＜Inside N. Korea＞ Explaining the Ukraine War to Citizens: “Russia’s Patriotic War,” “A Favorable Situation for Our Revolution” – Silence on Troop Deployment and Casualties
17. North Korean POWs in Ukraine excluded from Moscow-Kyiv prisoner swap: South lawmaker
18. N. Korean police create ‘invisible hierarchy’ based on wealth and family ties
19. Pyongyang elite face surprise electricity checks despite living in luxury apartments
20. Korea’s 2025 presidential race: Three visions for unification and national security

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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