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11/13/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.13.2025 at 03:40pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Army officer with Indo-Pacific experience emerges as potential Cyber Command, NSA pick
2. SOF News: RAND Study: TBI and SOF
3. Opinion | The CIA’s Battle With Truth
4. Xi Joins Trump in Skipping G-20 Summit in Blow to South Africa
5. Japan spoke up; S Korea must, too (on Taiwan)
6. Here are the Easter Eggs built into West Point’s latest Army-Navy football uniform
7. China’s moment: When Washington and Moscow both bow to Beijing
8. Opinion | The Heritage Foundation Loses Its Way
9. Operational Errors and Civilian Casualties
10. ASIO boss sounds alarm on ‘devastating, disruptive’ Chinese hacking threat
11. Pentagon formalizes conventional forces’ role in irregular warfare, but will it stick?
12. What Did We Get for $38 Trillion in Debt?
13. Assessing the Pentagon’s Mission to Rebuild the ‘Arsenal of Freedom’
14. Pentagon contract awards new combat knives for troops
15. When Trust Becomes Strategy: Rethinking America’s Innovation Posture
16. From Relic to Relevance: Why Obsolete Weapons Still Win Modern Wars
17. Can Democracy Still Make a Comeback?
18. SOCOM solicits industry to train commandos to build and fly FPV drones
19. US Army tests latest missile defense equipment on Guam and in South Korea
20. US forces launch relief effort in the Philippines after 2 typhoons batter islands
21. The Pentagon chooses learning over losing

Korean News:

1. North Korea’s Cybercrime Threat Is Growing in Both Size and Sophistication by Mathew Ha and Sophie McDowall
2. Some South Korean Workers Return to Georgia Factory After U.S. Reissues Visas
3. Japan spoke up; S Korea must, too (on Taiwan)
4. Korean War veterans honored at Veterans Day ceremony in Washington
5. US Army tests latest missile defense equipment on Guam and in South Korea
6. S. Korea-U.S. summit fact sheet could be released Fri.: sources
7. G7 top diplomats reaffirm commitment to ‘complete’ denuclearization of N. Korea
8. New South Korean Destroyer Formation Practices Missile Defense in First-ever Fleet Wargames
9. The US Has No Idea How to Deal With North Korea
10. Defense ministry carries out major reshuffle of 3-star generals
11. North Korean defector turned away from ROK’s Blue House alleges discrimination
12. Book review: An ex-North Korean diplomat pulls back the curtain on the regime
13. Nearly 30 pct of N.K. defectors in China had biological data registered with authorities
14. Hole-Riddled Sanctions, Government Failing to Act on North Korea
15. Gov’t probe into martial law fiasco ignites fears of political purge among military, public officials

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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