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10/22/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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10.22.2025 at 11:12am
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National Security News:

1. Palantir Has Lots of Enemies. Do They Even Know What It Does?
2. U.S. Attacks More Boats as Tensions With Venezuela Rise: What’s Happened So Far
3. Trump Officials Ratchet Up Pressure on Israel and Hamas
4. Trump Says Ukraine Summit With Putin Would be a ‘Waste of Time’
5. Colombia’s Ex-Guerrilla President Is Relishing a Fight With Trump
6. China’s Big London Spy Platform
7. Saudi Crown Prince Plans First White House Visit Since 2018
8. How America Spends a Fortune Creating World-Class Leaders and Then Forgets They Exist
9. Trump nominates new Vice Chief of Army, moving Mingus out after less than two years
10. The Rebirth of War Under New Rules
11. Alarm Raised Over “An American KGB” Run Out of Gabbard’s National Intelligence Office
12. EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon clamps down on military interactions with Congress
13. The U.S. Is Trying to Drive a Wedge Between Argentina and China
14. Command Through Collapse: A Division’s Fight on the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line
15. What the Military Does
16. Small Drones, Big Limits: A Smarter Drone Strategy
17.  The China Model’s Fatal Flaw – Why Beijing Can’t Overcome Overcapacity
18. Putins All the Way Down – How Russia Was Remade (Review Essay)
19. Taiwan Is Not for Sale – America Can Make a Good Deal With China Without Abandoning the Island

 

Korean News:

1. N. Korea fires 1st ballistic missiles in 5 mths ahead of Trump’s trip to APEC summit
2.  S. Korea launches 1st 3,600-ton naval attack submarine
3. The One Condition Trump Must Demand Before Meeting Kim Jong Un
4. Why fourth Trump-Kim summit would be on North Korea’s terms: ‘the ground has shifted’
5. The Republic of Korea Is a Key Partner for the United States in Artificial Intelligence Competition with China
6. Nat’l Assembly speaker asks Pope Leo to visit N. Korea for peace
7. Ex-ICC president says now is right time to refer Kim Jong-un to justice for aiding Putin’s aggression
8. Presidential office holds emergency meeting on N. Korea’s missile launch
9.  Russian students from Kursk send paper boats to thank N. Korean soldiers: KCNA
10. Seoul, Washington agree to seek practical support for S. Korean businesses’ entry into America
11. Korean Air, Lockheed Martin sign partnership framework for U.S. military aircraft maintenance
12. Human rights forum calls to protect North Koreans regardless of DPRK’s stance
13. The time is ripe for Donald Trump to play peacemaker with North Korea
14. Map shows Tomahawk missile range over North Korea
15. Freedom: Information, human rights and the future of a unified 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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