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6/30/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.30.2025 at 01:30pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Russia Masses 50,000 Troops Around Sumy, Putting Ukraine in Precarious Position
2. Iran Remains a Menace in the Americas
3. How Israel Killed Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientists
4. Disturbing Post-Iran Attack Questions
5. The Case for Space Defense
6. American Foreign Policy After Primacy
7. Might Unmakes Right: The Catastrophic Collapse of Norms Against the Use of Force
8. US Army Responds to Losses of M1 Abrams Tanks in Ukraine
9. Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won’t Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings
10. What Happens in the Middle East Doesn’t Stay in the Middle East: Strategic Signaling in a Multipolar Age
11. Why Russia fell out with Iran
12. Nearly one in 10 ‘Tier 1’ subcontractors to defense primes are Chinese firms: Report
13. 2025 NATO Summit: Time to Include the Asia-Pacific Democracies
14. Why NATO’s Future Depends on Strategic Partners Like South Korea
15. Part mafia, part SS — the force keeping Iran’s Ayatollah in power
16. The Case for an Economic Fusion Center to Prevent Strategic Surprise
17. Preventing Tunnel Construction: Technological, Architectural, and Policy Solutions in Conflict Zones
18. Is Chinese President Xi Jinping on his way out?
19. Is Xi Jinping Suffering from Stroke After effects? New Prime Minister Looks Down at Script 5 Times in 17 Seconds
20. Submit Now: 2025 Irregular Warfare Indo-Pacific Writing Contest
21. 2 minutes ‘to succeed or fail’: 44 US soldiers stayed at Al Udeid to intercept Iran’s missile barrage

Korean News Content:

1. France freezes assets of N. Korean diplomat posted in Paris, citing UN sanctions
2. South Korea and Trump’s five percent defense spending in the Indo-Pacific
3. U.S. tariff measures to have grave impact on S. Korean economy: experts
4. S. Korea says N. Korea notified U.N. Command of fortification plans inside DMZ
5. Why NATO’s Future Depends on Strategic Partners Like South Korea
6. 2 minutes ‘to succeed or fail’: 44 US soldiers stayed at Al Udeid to intercept Iran’s missile barrage
7. China’s maritime installations in the PMZ “may serve dual-use purposes beyond aquaculture”
8. South Korea, U.S. set late July summit date
9. Trump open to talks, distances Korean Peninsula conflict
10. Trump open to talks, distances Korean Peninsula conflict
11. President Lee envisions cultural powerhouse to ‘show Korea to the world’
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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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