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8/15/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.16.2025 at 04:49am

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National Security News Content:

  1. Putin and Trump arrive for summit, with last minute format change
  2. Bringing Putin to the Dock for War Crimes, No Easy Task
  3. Live updates: Trump, Putin take no questions, signal no agreement after talks in Alaska
  4. Partners in Deterrence: China and Russia’s Deepening Military-Technical Ties
  5. US Navy denies Chinese military report that it ‘drove away’ destroyer
  6. Passenger on F-15 ride-along ejected on runway, video shows
  7. Ukraine’s Patriots Now Struggling To Intercept Enhanced Russian Ballistic Missiles
  8. “Next Time in Moscow!”: Initial Assessment of the Alaska Summit
  9. Data as Firepower: An Exploration of Data Superiority as a Warfighting Concept
  10. ‘Primal Intelligence’ Review: Why Brains Are Better
  11. For Booz Allen, 2025 is the year of the ‘pivot’
  12. Troops in DC to help with ‘monument security,’ ‘area beautification’
  13. Trump-Putin Meeting: No Deal Reached at Russia-Ukraine War Summit
  14. The Quad in an ‘America First’ World
  15. China’s Fast-Shrinking Central Military Commission: Implications for the PLA
  16. Stop Saying “Uncrewed” Vehicles
  17. Swap Around and Find Out: The New Rules of International Digital Economic Warfare
  18. China’s Soft Power Tools and Whether They Work
  19. Hellfire Missile Launcher Disguised As Civilian Truck Breaks Cover In Taiwan
  20. The First Step in Negotiations With Russia
  21. China Is Enjoying Trump 2.0
  22. Russia’s Hybrid War on Poland

23.China is working on reusable rockets—and a strategic leap in space power

  1. Pentagon belatedly defends Driscoll against Loomer attacks

 

Korean News Content:

1.  Lee vows to respect N. Korea’s political system, won’t pursue unification by absorption
2. South Korea’s Lee says no plans for ‘unification by absorption’ with North
3. Civil society group urges national reset on Korean liberation’s 80th anniversary
4. On Korea’s Liberation Day, a drone show calls for reunification
5. S. Korea voices ‘deep regret’ over Japan PM’s offering, lawmakers’ visit to war shrine
6. Colby says Asian allies must ‘pull their weight’ for ‘sustainable’ collective defense
7. Swap Around and Find Out: The New Rules of International Digital Economic Warfare
8. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un makes speech at meeting held in celebration of 80th anniversary of national liberation
9. Lee seeks support from diplomatic corps ahead of APEC hosting
10. South Korea to restore pact halting military activity on North Korea border
11. South Korea’s anti-American president is coming to Washington
12. Putin hails ‘heroic’ North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine in letter to Kim Jong-un
13. How Will Lee Jae-myung Approach the United States?
14. Three Decades On, the Korean Wave Continues to Build Momentum

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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