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6/18/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.18.2025 at 02:13pm
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National Security News Content:

1. Niall Ferguson: America Is in a Late Republic Stage—Like Rome
2. This ‘Bunker Buster’ U.S. Bomb Could Cripple Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
3. How Things Could go from Worse to Devastating for Iran
4. U.S. Strike on Iran Among Options Trump Is Considering
5. Israel Built Its Case for War With Iran on New Intelligence. The U.S. Didn’t Buy It.
6. ‘Regime Change’? Questions About Israel’s Iran Goal Pressure Trump.
7. General in charge of Army’s Next-Gen C2 experiment takes command of unit getting prototype
8. China sends mystery transport planes into Iran
9. China’s Spy Agencies Are Investing Heavily in A.I., Researchers Say
10. China and US Tussle for World’s Seaports
11. Imagining the Near-Future of American Irregular Warfare in the Indo-Pacific
12. Iran: Regime Carries Out Massacre In Kermanshah Prison Under Shadow Of War With Israel – OpEd
13. Peace Through Strength Requires a Strong Defense of Human Rights
14. US ally doubles down on missiles angering China
15. Conflict between China, Philippines could involve U.S. and lead to a clash of superpowers
16. Army expects to make more than a million artillery shells next year

Korean News Content:

1. Is There A Famine In North Korea?
2. Behind Shuttered Borders: A view into North Korea’s COVID-19 experiences
3. North Korea’s Pandemic ‘Miracle’ Was a Deadly Lie, Report Says
4. Iran’s North Korea Nuclear Connection-Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr./Talkline with Zev Brenner
5. Lee, Ishiba to bolster cooperation with U.S. to cope with geopolitical crises, including N. Korea
6. S. Korea, U.S., Japan stage joint air drills in 1st 3-way exercise under Lee gov’t
7. S. Korea voices concerns over N. Korea’s reported plan to send military construction workers to Russia
8. Military to conduct border firing drills as planned despite loudspeaker campaign pause
9. The liberal-democratic ephemera that was South Korea
10. North Korea-China trade jumps to $230M in May, bringing yearly total to over $1B
11. Lee Jae-myung spotlights North Korean issues in G7 talks with Ishiba, Carney
12. In a quiet diplomatic move, India appoints ambassador to North Korea after 4 years

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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