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9/2/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.02.2025 at 01:22pm
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National Security News Content:

1. Is Irregular Warfare America’s Blind Spot?
2. US Proposes to Create Military Unit to Counter Nuclear Proliferation
3. Trump’s Defining Issue: China
4. Xi Revisits WWII to Boost China in Great-Power Rivalry With U.S.
5. Russian Drone Parts, Made in China
6. The Road to Freedom Campaign by Spirit of America
7. New Study Shows Trump Might Be Right on Tariffs
8. US ally opens new base at China choke point
9. These American mercenaries are revered in China. Their relatives are among the few US invitees to Xi’s WWII parade
10. By Tying Ukraine’s Hands, the Pentagon Undermines Trump
11. Trump in talks to deploy private army to Ukraine
12. Ukraine Pursues a Weapons Buildup More Potent Than Any Security Guarantee
13. AI-Powered Drone Swarms Have Now Entered the Battlefield
14. Eighty years after WWII’s end, the consensus it forged is crumbling
15. The Doctrine of Obedience: Iran’s Recruitment Architecture and the Illusion of Diplomacy
16. The Countdown to Venezuela’s Digital-AI Authoritarian Future: Two Clocks in a Strategic Race
17. Reimagining Indian Military Doctrine: Operation Sindoor Through the Lens of Gupta Karya
18.  Don’t Abandon AUKUS by Gary Roughead, Marise Payne, Nicholas Carter, and James Mattis
19. Recruit–Train–Equip–Repeat Isn’t Enough Anymore: Bringing Transformation to the Army’s Generating Force
20. Faster Wars, Smarter Minds: Driving the Army’s Quiet Cognitive Revolution
21. Roosevelt’s 1941 Labor Day Radio Address
22. America Is Cutting Off the Five Eyes. The Results Could Be Catastrophic.
23. Government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess
24. Trump appointee exits US foreign aid agency after four-month sprint: ‘Mission accomplished’
25. The case for the em dash
26. ‘Keep up the fire’: The Boxer Rebellion and the Marines who fought it

Korean News Content:

1. Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK to the General Assembly, 2025
2. Kim Jong Un’s Missiles Fly. He Doesn’t.
3. Kim Jong-un’s strategic choices
4. Kim Jong Un rides his trademark green train to China. He also has a plane, limos and white horses
5. North Korea announces new Hwasong-20 nuclear missile as Kim arrives in China
6. Lee Jae-myung to give UN speech on ‘Korean Peninsula’ vision this month
7. Kim Jong Un to seek Chinese support in Beijing to hedge against Moscow: NIS
8. Chinese-made robot vacuums’ security vulnerabilities risk privacy breaches (Korea)
9. N. Korea’s Kim arrives in Beijing ahead of military parade
10. N.K. leader appears to be accompanied by daughter on visit to China: NIS
11. About 2,000 N.K. troops deployed to Russia estimated to have been killed: NIS
12. S. Korea, U.S. yet to finalize talks over Seoul’s defense spending hike: defense official
13. Nat’l Assembly speaker departs for Beijing to attend military parade
14. Lee awards symbolic swords to new generals
15. All eyes on solidarity between Pyongyang, Beijing, Moscow
16. N. Korean memorial for Ukraine war dead sparks rare public anger at government
17. N. Korea declares special security alert ahead of Kim Jong Un’s China visit

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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