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6/24/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.24.2025 at 04:14pm
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National Security News Content:

1. Israel Confirms Cease-Fire With Iran, Says War Aims Achieved
2. Trump’s Iran Attack Spurs Concerns of Retaliation in the U.S.
3. NATO Aims to Boost Defenses Against Drones, Hacking and Sabotage
4. U.S. Tells Companies to Prepare for Iranian Cyberattacks
5. NATO allies, besides Spain, set to make 5 percent GDP spending pledge
6. US support for international engagement sees jump in Reagan Foundation poll
7. Commentary: Asian leaders sidelined at G7 summit amid global turmoil
8. FBI Warning—All Smartphone Users Must Delete These Messages
9. Tehran’s Fatal Miscalculation? Thinking A North Korean-Style Pariah Could Stay Safe In The Middle East
10. North Korean Missile Debris Found in Kyiv After Deadly Russian Strike
11. A US Golden Dome would be a geopolitical game changer
12. What to expect in the upcoming NATO summit: Trump, spending, Ukraine, Iran
13. China Slams Taiwan’s Lai for Speech Mentioning Independence
14. Marching to Different Drums: The Army’s Birthday Parade as Seen from China
15. We Need a Marine Corps, Part III: A Corps Recentered
16. Transform, Campaign, Repeat: Winning in the Indo-Pacific
17. Preparedness and Parallels: Lessons in Crisis Preparedness from Sweden and Latin America
18. Special Operations News – Monday, June 23, 2025
19. A Nuclear Iran Would Pose an Existential Threat to the South Caucasus
20. Iran Claims Ukrainian Saboteurs Worked With Mossad to Attack Drone Plant
21. Russia’s Rogue Warriors: A Paramilitary Legacy
22. Dispensable Nation: America in a Post-American World
23.  Southeast Asia Is Starting to Choose: Why the Region Is Leaning Toward China
24. Ceasefire or Not, Iran Looks for Ways to Reduce the Risk of a U.S. Reprisal
25. The Strait of Hormuz and the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Shockwaves
26. How Iran’s Collapse Could Trigger a Central Asian Refugee Crisis
27. Loyalty in Crisis: Civil-Military Tensions in the Second Trump Presidency

Korean News Content:

1. New South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is playing with dynamite
2. Lee skips NATO, sending his adviser instead. Will that be enough?
3. South Korea’s Nato no-show: pragmatism or diplomatic shift?
4. Unification minister nominee voices need for changing name of ministry to highlight peace
5. Acting U.S. envoy cites ‘other’ defense costs to discuss beyond U.S. troops cost-sharing with S. Korea
6. N. Korea holds key party meeting on H1 performance without disclosing leader Kim’s speech
7. Kim Jong Un holds party plenum in remote mountains, keeps outcomes unclear
8. Abductee family group to consider not sending leaflets to N. Korea
9. S. Korea, U.S. launch joint shipbuilding education program
10. Tehran’s Fatal Miscalculation? Thinking A North Korean-Style Pariah Could Stay Safe In The Middle East
11. North Korean Missile Debris Found in Kyiv After Deadly Russian Strike
12. Lee Jae Myung stresses peace on peninsula ahead of Korean War anniversary
13. South Korea’s new leaders seek continuity on key defense issues
14. President Lee picks South Korea’s first civilian defense chief in 64 years
15. Drunken fight between soldiers and militia leaves three dead in Samjiyon
16. US Strikes On Iran May Strengthen North Korea’s Nuclear Resolve – Analysis
17. Five Challenges For South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung – Analysis
18. N. Korea now holds all the cards but can it last? Consequences of Russia-NK rapprochement
19. Joe Rogan Revives Dennis Rodman’s North Korea Meltdown as Kim Jong-un Chaos Revealed

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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