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7/9/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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07.09.2025 at 02:28pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Putin’s Strategy of Paying Lip Service to Peace Falters as Trump Loses Patience
2. Trump Calls Out the Putin Charade
3. Trump should recommit to Ukraine’s cause
4. U.S. Ports Appeal for Delay to Tariffs on Chinese Cranes
5. The Forgotten American: Can There Be Life After 12 Years in a Chinese Prison?
6. Army aims to quadruple Patriot missile procurement
7. Mysterious Guided Rocket Launcher Disguised In A Shipping Container At Fort Bragg Identified
8. A look at the wish lists for CENTCOM, NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM, INDOPACOM and STRATCOM
9. House committee’s NDAA authorizes more money for Ukraine, thwarts troop reductions in Europe
10. What Trump’s order on ‘unleashing American drone dominance’ means for the U.S. military
11. China imposes export ban on companies tied to Taiwan’s military
12. Army will look for false accusations, consider ‘credibility’ in misconduct cases
13. The Army has realized that horses are no longer good for ‘warfighting’
14. For Iranian Regime, War for Survival is Against Citizens at Home
15. Stacey Abrams touts 10 steps to autocracy, says ‘do not let the propaganda win’
16. Fired State Dept bureaucrats reportedly using their regime change skills to sabotage Trump
17. USAID review raised ‘critical concerns’ over Gaza aid group days before $30 million US grant
18. New USDA Program Ties Food Security to National Defense
19. Marco Rubio ‘impersonator’ used AI to mimic top Trump aide’s voice
20. What Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Understand About Soldiers
21. No, The Chinese Will Not Invade Taiwan
22. US Army’s HIMARS to Go Hypersonic
23. US Army Cadet Command announces Senior ROTC rebalance and optimization
24. Beijing’s Push for a Sino-Centric Asia is Cracking Southeast Asia’s Hedging Game
25. American Gun Violence Goes Global – How Its Spread Is Distorting and Diminishing U.S. Soft Power
26. The Real AI Race – America Needs More Than Innovation to Compete With China

Korean News Content:

1. Evil birds of a feather flock together: North Korea’s stealth role in the axis of tyranny By Abraham Cooper and Greg Scarlatoiu
2. Six North Koreans Sent Back on a Tiny Wooden Boat by the South
3. Trump says S. Korea should pay for its own defense
4. Wi, Rubio agree on swift Lee-Trump summit, date undecided
5. Will US tariff pressure on Japan and South Korea push them closer to China?
6. A quiet wish from North Korean defector youths
7. President Lee vows to make Korea a global defense industry powerhouse
8. S. Korea proposes trade, security package deal in tariff talks with U.S.
9. Trump’s excessive demands put ROK-US alliance in danger
10. Trump’s excessive demands put ROK-US alliance in danger
11. Dandong trade zone announces exports a decade after North Korea-focused launch
12. N. Korean defector to file lawsuits in S. Korea against Kim Jong-un over human rights crimes
13. North Koreans no longer tuning in to South Korean radio channels
14. N. Korean students mobilized for military airfield work
15. Cash-strapped N. Korean diplomats reveal financial struggles through airport luggage
16. S. Korea to comply with existing terms of defense cost-sharing deal with U.S.
17. N. Korea elevates chemical weapons as strategic deterrent

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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