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10/13/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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10.13.2025 at 10:57am
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National Security News:

1. A Coordinated Squeeze Forced Hamas to Accept a Deal It Didn’t Want
2. Trump May Send Tomahawks to Ukraine
3. Trump’s Fresh Tariff Assault Threatens China’s Fragile Economy
4. What to Know About the Gaza Deal (Updated)
5. Trump’s War Drums in Venezuela
6. Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks
7. Ukraine Is Hitting Russia Where It Hurts: Its Oil Refineries
8. Suppose They Held a War and Nobody Came: Systemic Approaches to Shared Military Personnel Challenges
9. Putin Is Losing the Ukraine War: Escalation Is Coming
10. ‘Captain, We Have Been Hit’: A Tiny Nuclear Submarine ‘Sank’ $4.5 Billion Navy Aircraft Carrier
11. A conservative influencer was arrested in Portland. Trump was watching.
12. Hezbollah’s Information Warfare in the Post-October 7 Era
13. How it was possible to build and sustain public support for a war effort?
14. As Russian Aggression Turns West, Poland Says It’s Ready
15. India supplying Philippines the missiles it needs to fend off China
16. Gaza Hostages Are Freed, Ending Two-Year Captivity
17. Special Operations News – Oct 13, 2025
18. The Strategic Importance of Greenland: The Role of Tactical Missile and Air Defense in the Arctic
19. Blinding First, Striking Fast: Why the Marine Corps Needs Information Groups
20. ‘The Nuclear Age’ Review: The World and the Bomb by John Bolton
21. Why Gradualism Can Help in Gaza
22. The Coming AI Backlash: How the Anger Economy Will Supercharge Populism
23. NATO special forces head to the Arctic

Korean News:

1. South Korea Promises It Will Rekindle U.S. Shipbuilding. That’s Still Far Off.
2. Pragmatic trio: China, Russia, North Korea’s triangle of convenience
3. Kim Jong Un says parades demonstrated North Korea’s military might to the world
4. Seoul’s defense chief says US troops should focus on North Korea, not China
5. North Korea, Vietnam sign deals on enhancing defense cooperation, other ties
6. How North Korea courted global friends at its ruling party celebrations
7. Defense chief says USFK’s military buildup aimed at deterring N. Korea
8. High-profile chief of N.K.’s abolished body appears to retain director title
9. N. Korea’s Kim pays respects at family mausoleum for party founding anniversary
10. Presidential office says U.S. shows response on some revised proposals in trade talks
11. Editorial: Parties Must Stop Dragging China into Political Strife
12. Trump expected to visit S. Korea for APEC but likely to skip leaders’ summit: FM Cho
13. FM Cho says Korea reviewing new US proposal on $350 bil. investment package
14. North Korea’s dangerous show of force
15. North Korea strengthens position through military, diplomacy
16. President Trump Must Treat Korea as a True Ally

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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