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7/2/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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07.02.2025 at 10:35am

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. U.S. Halts Key Weapons for Ukraine in New Sign of Weakening Support for Kyiv
2. China Is Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race
3. Satellite Images Capture Activity at Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Site After U.S. Strikes
4. Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Russia to Replenish Its War Chest
5. The Iran Strikes and the Trump Doctrine
6. Cyber to Soil: How America’s Food System Became a Battlespace
7. Trump administration keeps FBI headquarters in D.C., upending planned move
8. Making Foreign Aid Great Again
9. Opinion: Why we couldn’t sell America on USAID
10. Trump Ends the Folly of De-escalation By H.R. McMaster
11. Operation Midnight Hammer—Can’t We All Just Be Proud Americans?
12. Decoding Xi’s China: The return of Pekingology
13. US military issues update on China’s Rocket Force threat
14. Putin Tossing Generals Exposes Fractures in Presidential Control Over Russian Military
15. Trump Is Breaking American Intelligence: Politicizing the System Makes Dangerous Failures More Likely
16. Chinese pressure stresses Taiwan’s democracy
17. Army ‘considering terminating’ General Dynamics’ oversight of new 155mm production lines
18. Hegseth is missing a major source of wasteful Pentagon spending
19. Transformer Trouble and the National Security Imperative

Korean News Content:

1. Justice Department Announces Coordinated, Nationwide Actions to Combat North Korean Remote Information Technology Workers’ Illicit Revenue Generation Schemes
2. America Can’t Do to North Korea What It Just Did to Iran
3. S. Korea’s role in a Taiwan crisis on which North might piggyback
4. China sounds out S. Korea on Lee’s possible attendance at Sept. military parade: sources
5. S. Korea, China discuss APEC cooperation, steel structures in Yellow Sea
6. N. Korea already using Russia’s Pantsir-S1 air-defense system: report
7. U.S. seeks to arrest 4 N. Koreans for posing as IT workers to steal company money
8. DOJ announces sweeping crackdown on North Koreans working for over 100 US firms
9. Russia training North Korean drone pilots near Wonsan resort, capital: Kyiv
10. Chinese citizens marvel at North Korea’s megaresort, and fume at their exclusion
11. UN envoy says world must not give up on Japanese abductees in North Korea
12. Korean population could drop by 85% in next 100 years: study
13. Seoul carefully weighs Beijing’s invitation to WWII commemoration
14. N. Korean rice prices hold at record highs as food shortages worsen
15. N. Koreans grow tired of potato-heavy diet
16. N. Korean shipyard workers forced into unpaid overtime

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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