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10/2/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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10.02.2025 at 03:33pm

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National Security News Content:

1. U.S. to Provide Ukraine With Intelligence for Missile Strikes Deep Inside Russia
2. Trump Signs Order That Could See U.S. Military Defend Qatar
3. Europe’s Emerging Plan: Give Ukraine $200 Billion in Russian Money
4. China’s cyberattacks, electronic espionage subverting U.S. and its allies, report says
5. Risk Makes Deterrence Effective
6. We Don’t Need a New Force Design, or National Strategy
7. New poll shows striking change in Americans’ views on political violence
8. ‘Dangerous Cities,’ the Military, Trump and the Founding Fathers
9. IWC Launches Its First Course on Irregular Warfare Approaches for the Homeland
10. ‘Warrior ethos’ mistakes military might for true security − and ignores the wisdom of Eisenhower
11.  Hegseth at Quantico: Directives or Drama?
12. An Inflection Point for Information Operations Officers
13. AI-Driven Disinformation Campaigns on Twitter (X) in the Russia-Ukraine War
14. Information Inoculation: Preparing US Warfighters for Cognitive War
15. Sequencing Over Simultaneity: How to Avert a Two-Front War
16. Manila Recovers Chinese Underwater Drone Operating in Philippine Waters
17. Improvised Genius: Could the United States Match Ukraine’s Scrappy Innovation Culture?
18. The Two-Front Illusion: Why a WWII-Style Mobilization Would Break on Today’s Economy and How to Fix It
19. Quad-ASEAN trade cooperation key to regional economic security
20. The Price of Unpredictability: How Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Ruining American Credibility
21. Sudan’s War Is the Shape of Things to Come: Why Mediators Struggle to End a New Kind of Conflict
22. Legal opinions usually aren’t exciting. This one has everyone talking
23. ‘In every woman, there is a soldier’ – Yaryna Chornohuz, the brave poet fighting Russia

 

Korean News Content:

1. Negotiating with North Korea in the Shadow of Great Power Rivalry
2. South Korea’s president calls for more self-reliant military as questions arise about US commitment
3. Curtains for the US-Korea military alliance?
4. Denuclearization of North Korea: No ‘END’ in Sight
5. US Pushes South Korea to Strengthen Self-Reliance
6. South Korea’s APEC Summit: A Test for Lee Jae-myung’s ‘Pragmatic’ Diplomacy
7. Unification Minister: North Korea Among Three Capable of Striking U.S.
8. Editorial: Wartime Control Transfer Should Depend on Reliable War Prevention
9. Seoul awaits U.S. response on revised investment deal: presidential office
10. Lee apologizes over past rights violations in foreign adoption cases
11. How North Korea’s love-hate relationship with English complicates Seoul ties
12. N. Korea’s FM vows to bolster diplomatic exchanges, cooperation with China
13. PM voices hope for China’s positive contribution to inter-Korean relations
14. North Korea holds public trials for breast augmentation doctors and patients
15. N. Korea seen as preparing for military parade marking party anniv.: JCS
16. Lee calls for crackdown against anti-Chinese rallies
17. ROK activists attempt to send food and supplies to North Korean POWs in Ukraine
18. David Maxwell discusses South Korea’s military spending increase, the largest in over 15 years, which supports the goal of developing independent warfighting capabilities and transitioning operational control (OPCON).
19. Fault Lines Daily Summary – October 2, 2025 (Korea “Plus”)
20. Why we must take a human rights up-front approach to North Korea

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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