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8/30/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.31.2025 at 02:21am
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National Security News Content:

1. White House Moves Forward on Plans for a Department of War
2. While Trump Rattles the World, China Basks in the Limelight
3. When the Kremlin Failed to Brainwash Them as Children, They Plotted Their Escape
4. The U.N.’s Days in Lebanon Are Numbered
5. China ramps up push for more UN jobs
6. Trump’s Venezuelan War Games
7. Key Houthi Leader Killed in Israeli Airstrike
8. U.S. Tariffs on India Skirt Around Its Biggest Buyer of Russian Oil
9. Xi Uses Summit, Parade and History to Flaunt China’s Global Pull
10. China Rekindles Wartime Fury, Stirring Fears of Anti-Japan Hate
11. Trump’s Venezuelan War Games
12. Targeting Iran’s Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link: Their Bodyguards
13. China’s support for multilateralism is vital, says UN’s Guterres
14. Senior US senator expects joint weapons production with Taiwan
15. Commentary: The bigger story behind Modi’s China trip
16. Kari Lake lays off more than 500 staff at Voice of America parent agency
17. The Real Limits of Ukrainian Power – How Democratic Unity May Determine Military Survival
18. Precision and Peril: The Strategy and Consequences of Targeted Killings
19. China’s Victory Day Message Points to Struggle Ahead
20. Ex-US Army Colonel Says Ukraine War On The Cusp Of An AI Revolution
21. Inside Pete Hegseth’s Civilian Purge at West Point

 

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea’s Kim set for debut on multilateral diplomatic stage in China
2. N. Korea’s Kim decided troop deployment for Russia in August 2024
3. Seoul approves Paju city gov’t plan to contact N. Korea for cross-border marathon event
4. S. Korean chipmakers face heightened uncertainties on planned U.S. license restriction
5.  U.S. to require Samsung, SK hynix to acquire licenses for sending U.S. chipmaking tools to China
6. Kim-Putin talks under discussion on sidelines of Chinese military parade: Kremlin
7. The Kim dynasty returns to multilateral diplomacy
8. Editorial: Kim Jong-un finds leverage in a gathering of authoritarians
9. New chapter in alliance –
10. An unthinkable debate in North Korea
11. Lee Goes to Washington
12. ＜Inside N. Korea＞Almost Like Farmers? Military Farm Deployments Become Routine… Farms Welcome Free Labor, but Authorities Worry About Soldiers’ Misconduct

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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