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

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06.25.2025 at 12:49pm

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National Security News Content:

1. How Trump Cajoled Iran and Israel Into a Cease-Fire and Forced Them to Comply
2. U.S. Strikes Set Back Iran Nuclear Program by a Few Months, Initial Report Says
3. The Pillars of Iran’s Regime Are Damaged, Not Destroyed
4. New Life for Nonproliferation
5. How the U.S. Locked Itself Into a Regime Change War
6. U.S. Credibility Returns to the Middle East
7. A Strait of Hormuz blockade would barely hurt the US
8. China Tightens Controls on Fentanyl but Calls It a U.S. Problem
9. Female Troops Played Key Roles in B-2, Submarine Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
10. The Lion Rises and the Eagle Soars | Juliana Geran Pilon
11. For 250 years, it’s been ‘change or lose’ for our military. Here’s what needs changing now
12. Why Recent Surprise Attacks Against Russia and Iran Should Worry Taiwan
13. War, Bound: Fiscal Constraints, Tactical Realities, and Contemporary Land Warfare
14. The Strategic Consequences of Deferred Maintenance: Challenges to the Resilience of U.S. Sea Power
15. FBI Probing Leak of Iran Strike Intelligence Report, Hegseth Says
16. China’s top security agency mocks CIA Chinese spy recruitment drive as ‘farcical’
17. Explainer | US bunker-busting GBU-57 in Iran: experts in China assess combat debut
18. Are Trump’s Iran strikes a ‘wake-up call’ for China on US unpredictability?
19. Why Saturday’s strike on Iran was perfectly timed
20. China to Block Its Rare-Earth Experts From Spilling Their Secrets
21. Beware the Europe You Wish For
22. How to Survive the New Nuclear Age
23. The Real Obstacle to Peace With Iran
24. The Key to the Young Male Vote: Beer

Korean News Content:

1. Understanding the Forever Conflict Between North and South Korea
2. N. Korea stages anti-U.S. mass rallies on Korean War anniversary
3. Mongolia Forum 2025 Takes Place under the Theme “Northeast Asian Peaceful Development and Korean Unification”
4. S. Korea approves civic groups’ bid for N. Korean contact for humanitarian aid exchanges
5. State Dept. reaffirms N.K. denuclearization goal after U.S. strikes on Iranian nuke facilities
6. Defectors testify to executions by firing squad of N. Koreans for watching S. Korean TV dramas
7. China Calls Them Fish Farms. South Korea Fears They Have Another Use.
8. South Korea’s new president starts early to mend relations with North
9. Military solution to North Korea nuclear issue is ‘unimaginable’: ROK nominee
10. Russian Far East entrepreneurs visit North Korea to discuss joint ventures
11. Chinese state media largely silent on anniversary of Korean War outbreak
12. On Korean War anniversary, president prioritizes peace for national security
13. UN North Korea Human Rights Office Director: “North Korean Human Rights Victims Have ‘Right to Have Their Suffering Recognized’”
14. Unification Minister Candidate: “Peace Establishment is the People’s Command, the Most Important Task”
15. North Korea mobilizes students to collect stones daily for flood prevention walls
16. U.N.-reported petroleum exports to N.K. reach only 4 pct of sanctions cap amid Russian omission

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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