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11/14/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

by David Maxwell

11.14.2025 at 01:22pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Assessing “Cognitive Warfare” by Frank Hoffman

2. Exclusive | Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s AI to Automate Cyberattacks

3. Putin Is Turning Eighth-Grade Classrooms Into Army Training Grounds

4. China Registers Worst Investment Decline in Years as Slowdown Continues

5. ‘Not enthusiastic’: why China finds Trump’s ‘G2’ talk too costly in geopolitics

6. The Partner’s Partner: Exploring Proxy Security Cooperation Efforts

7. Control the Hemisphere, Contain China: Inside America’s Two-Front Strategy

8. The Army’s New M1E3 Abrams Tank Has a Message for Every Military on Earth

9. Department of War Name Set in Bronze at Pentagon Entrances

10. Russia claims to have thwarted Ukrainian assassination plot as deadly overnight strikes pound Kyiv

11. Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels

12. SOCOM wants to train operators to build, wield FPV drones

Korean News:

1. U.S. approves South Korean nuclear submarine program in finalized trade deal

2. Door opened for Seoul’s pursuit of uranium enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing

3. South Korea, U.S. Agree on Nuclear Submarine Framework

4. SCM Joint Declaration Omits ‘Kim Regime End’ Warning

5. Ahn, Hegseth agree to craft road map designed to ‘expedite’ implementation of OPCON transition conditions

6. U.S. approval for S. Korea’s nuclear sub drive indicates ‘strategic deepening’ of alliance

7. India installs its first envoy in N. Korea since pandemic

8. The phone notes that reveal an alleged plan to bait Kim Jong Un with drones

9. Despite easing of uncertainty, fact sheets still have points of contention

10. Seoul scraps plans for North Korean human rights museum in favor of peace center

David Maxwell

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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