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10/24/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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10.24.2025 at 11:01am
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National Security News:

1. CIA playing ‘most important part’ in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say
2. The Only Security Guarantee Ukraine Can Trust
3. China’s New Strategy for Trump: Punch Hard, Concede Little
4. Why Trump Reached a Breaking Point With Putin
5. Trump-Xi summit, if not canceled like Trump-Putin, will be tepid
6. U.S. Sends B-1 Bombers Near Venezuela, Ramping Up Military Pressure
7. Most-Wanted Fentanyl Producer Is in Cuban Custody After Brazen Escape
8. Vance Says International Security Force Will Take Lead on Disarming Hamas
9. How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power
10. Taiwan in the Shadow of War
11. Can America’s soft power be saved?
12. ‘Irregular warfare is not going away, however much we’d like it to’
13. Xi Jinping’s Purges Shrink Ranks of China’s Communist Elite—and Boost His Power
14. Hamas Has Calculated It Can Survive in Gaza—and Rule
15. Full Impact of Tariffs on Asia-Pacific Still to Come, IMF Warns
16. Through the Tiger’s Eyes: Enabling the Second American Century
17. The Leak That Targeted the Leakers
18. China Against China – Xi Jinping Confronts the Downsides of Success
19.  Exorbitant Pillage – Can the U.S. Dollar Survive the U.S. Government? (Review Essay)
20. Washington’s hard line in South China Sea tests allies, raises risks
21. In China’s dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order
22. The Red Arsenal: inside China’s cutting-edge weapon systems

Korean News:

1. An Emboldened Kim Nudges Trump for a Sitdown
2. The Division of Korea: a roadmap for the cold war
3. Inchon’s Real Story: A Misalignment of Policy, War Aims, and War Plans
4. Jakarta gambles on embracing North Korea
5. Kim Jong Un says joint war effort with Russia outmatched ‘US and West’
6. Armed North Korean soldiers crossed MDL in pursuit of defector, Seoul confirms
7. Japan’s new prime minister signals openness to meeting Kim Jong Un
8. Book review: An insider’s account of how the US dropped the ball on North Korea
9.  Trump, Xi to both pay state visits to S. Korea during APEC gathering
10. The Leak That Targeted the Leakers
11. N. Korea breaks ground on memorial museum for its troops deployed for Russia’s war with Ukraine
12. Around 20 N. Korean soldiers briefly cross MDL, retreat after warning shots
13. Unification minister calls on N. Korea’s Kim, Trump to meet on occasion of APEC gathering
14. Vice FM highlights S. Korea’s role in safeguarding peace on Korean Peninsula on U.N. Day
15. Major protests planned against Trump, Xi in Gyeongju ahead of APEC summit
16. All eyes on Trump’s appearance at APEC CEO Summit

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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