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8/12/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.12.2025 at 09:54pm
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National Security News Content:

1. Russia Has High Hopes for Trump-Putin Summit. Peace Isn’t One of Them.
2. The Putin Stakes for Trump
3. Russian Military Makes Surprise Push in Ukraine Ahead of Trump Talks
4. Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
5. The Critical Importance of Ukraine’s Fortress Belt in Donetsk Oblast
6. This isn’t how wars are ended: a veteran diplomat puts Trump-Putin summit in context
7. Documents detail China’s AI-powered propaganda push
8. China Creates World’s No. 1 Shipbuilder, Driven by Rivalry With U.S.
9. Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest
10. American Support for Israel Is Faltering
11. Vietnam and Afghanistan – Shared Failure
12. Decoding Intent in Irregular Warfare: Lessons from Venezuela, Iran, and the Strategic Use of Ambiguity
13. How Trump Is Expanding the Role of the American Military on U.S. Soil
14. The Dawn of Automated Warfare: Artificial Intelligence Will Be the Key to Victory in Ukraine—and Elsewhere
15. Amid shakeup, Army plans to replace Gray Eagle and Shadow drones
16. Republicans, Democrats alike exhort Trump: Keep security pact with Australia and UK alive
17. Johns Hopkins is building classified versions of its AI wargaming tools for DoD, IC
18. Why is Trump being so generous to China?
19. Meet Neurosymbolic AI, Amazon’s Method for Enhancing Neural Networks
20. Marcos says the Philippines will be pulled into any war over Taiwan, despite China’s protest
21. Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap
22. Ukraine Isn’t the Model for Winning the Innovation War

 

Korean News Content:

1. From Escape to Leadership: North Korean Young Leaders Assembly 2025 Inspires a New Generation
2. The John Batchelor Show ROK and DPRK. Gordon Chang, GREG SCARLATOIU
3. Bruce Bechtol, “Rogue Allies” | Video | C-SPAN.org
4. South Korean President Lee will travel to Washington for Aug. 25 meeting with Trump
5. National security adviser meets visiting U.S. representatives ahead of Lee-Trump summit
6. FM Cho, acting U.S. ambassador to visit HD Hyundai’s shipyard Wednesday
7. Putin briefs N. Korean leader on upcoming summit with Trump: report
8. British warships arrive in S. Korea for Indo-Pacific mission
9. South Korea mulls skipping annual report on human rights abuses in North Korea
10. N. Korea holds firing drills ahead of planned S. Korea-US joint military exercises –
11. North Korean farms lose half their livestock to deadly heat wave
12. Landmines to cameras: North Korea’s defense ministry inspects entire China border infrastructure
13. North Korea conducts military drills in warning to US-ROK ‘military gangsters’
14. Justice Department seeks return of $1M stolen by North Korean IT workers

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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