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11/19/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.19.2025 at 02:42pm

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National Security News:

1. Report: China preparing its population for war with U.S.
2. A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents – part of Beijing’s trillion dollar spending spree
3. Ukraine hits targets in Russia with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, military says
4. China’s Demographics Problem Grows
5. SWJ–El Centro Book Review – Hidden War: How Special Operations Game Wardens are Reclaiming America’s Wildlands from the Drug Cartels
6. The Case for Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Ensuring Information Access for Closed Societies
7. To Evade Sanctions, the Kremlin Turns to a Convicted Money Launderer
8. The surreal 45-day trek at the heart of Nato’s defence
9. Trump Sends Pentagon Officials to Ukraine in Effort to Restart Peace Talks
10. Trump Said to Authorize C.I.A. Plans for Covert Action in Venezuela
11. Terrifying internet vulnerability EXPOSED Cloudflare crash
12.  Saudi Arabia wants to buy nearly 300 U.S. tanks, White House says
13. U.S. Backs $1 Billion Loan to Restart the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant
14. Explaining The Lack of Proficiency in Arab Armies with Solutions to Modernize
15. China solves Japanese spy cases, vows counter-intelligence crackdown
16. The Remaking of U.S. Foreign Aid Programs
17. In Search of a Defense Doctrine
18. Interoperability: Winning Happens in the Off-Season – The Imperative for Warfighting Success in a Coalition Warfighter Exercise
19. Why the U.S. Is Losing the Cognitive Competition
20. Sabotage as a “New Normal”
21. How the Frontier Spirit and the Outback Temperament Collide in AUKUS
22. America’s Allies Should Go Nuclear
23. AI Is Supercharging Disinformation Warfare
25. Congress’s DISRUPT Act: The Blueprint for Political Warfare Against the “Dark Quad”

 

Korean News:

1. What the east-up view means for Indo-Pacific regional stability
2. North Korea executes ‘big shot’ couple who became ‘arrogant’ after the success of their business, accusing them of being ‘anti-republic’
3. North Korean workers to make Russian drones, Ukrainian intel says
4. The Case for Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Ensuring Information Access for Closed Societies
5. North Korea’s Execution State: When Law Becomes a Tool of Terror
6. America’s Allies Should Go Nuclear
7. What the U.S.-Korea fact sheet reveals about Washington’s expectations
8. North Korea created new spy group to monitor ‘anti-socialist’ acts: Researcher
9. Kim Jong Un praises secret police for defending his rule during visit to HQ
10. Trump ‘took Pyongyang by surprise’ with nuclear subs for South Korea, sinking talk hopes
11. Pro-Pyongyang paper says N. Korea aims to build socialist powerhouse by 2035
12. Lee encourages S. Korean troops stationed in UAE
13. S. Korean envoy stresses close cooperation with U.S. to pave way for N.K. dialogue
14. S. Korea stresses need to improve U.S. visa issues for Korean investors for bilateral cooperation
15. S. Korea’s 1st submarine to retire after 34 years in service
16. HD Hyundai sets industry record with 5,000 vessel deliveries
17. Hyundai Motor chief upbeat about U.S. market following trade deal
18. Activist group members sent to prosecutors over anti-North leaflet launches

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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