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11/20/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.20.2025 at 02:43pm

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National Security News:

1. Trump Administration Pushes New Plan for Ending Ukraine War
2. Opinion | Dick Cheney and the Fruits of Regime Change
3. Army names 9 installations that could be chosen for nuclear microreactor project
4. Commercial innovation, not government production, will win the drone war
5. Japan’s no longer ambiguous stance on Taiwan
6. China Is Priming Its People and the World for a New Pressure Campaign on Taiwan
7. The Pentagon Can’t Trust GPS Anymore. Is Quantum Physics the Answer?
8. Why Australia’s terrorism definition still works
9. ARSOF Civil Affairs Trains with AI
10. Future War Will Be Fought with Sticks and Stones
11. Vertical integration of rare Earth elements for US autonomous dominion
12. As we await the Pentagon’s posture review, here’s one country we should keep troops in
13. SOCOM to evaluate industry hardware solutions for powering AI workloads
14. Can a tabletop game explain why America lost the Vietnam War?
15. New Army unit seeks to disrupt ‘malign influence’ in Indo-Pacific
16. Army leaders ordered to check in daily with soldiers over the holidays
17. How a Nazi trial ended the just-following-orders defense for US troops
18. What 3 former SOUTHCOM commanders say troops should know about Venezuela
19. US paratrooper lands in Tokyo suburb after chute malfunctions during training
20. Building maritime drones in months—not years—could be key to creating the Navy’s hybrid fleet
21. Shadow navy: How China’s civilian fleet could be a potent weapon in a Taiwan invasion
22. How to Topple Maduro: And Why Regime Change Is the Only Way Forward in Venezuela by Elliot Abrams
23. Resistance is Victory: Taiwan’s 2025 National Defense Report and Resisting Cognitive Coercion
24. The New Soft-Power Imbalance: China’s Cautious Response to America’s Retreat
25. Transition Period Warfare: How the US Army Should Organize to Fight in a Time of Rapid Change

 

Korean News:

1. Exclusive | The Ex-FBI Agent Who Spent Four Years Hunting Down a North Korean Spy
2. SOUTH KOREA’S USE OF CULTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF NATIONAL POWER
3. Suspension of RFA and VOA transforms North Korean public opinion as rumors replace outside news
4. UN Command denies proxying Seoul’s proposal to talk with Pyongyang
5. Lee says won’t neglect N. Korea’s advance of nuclear program
6. U.N. panel adopts resolution condemning North Korea’s rights abuses
7. 1 Army staff sergeant wounded in DMZ explosion accident
8. Why North Korean soldiers still find love letters hidden among their military belongings
9. All 267 people rescued after ferry runs aground off Korea’s southwestern coast
10. North Korean logistics officers profiteer from grain collection as rice prices soar
11. Korea delays MOU ratification amid tariff concerns
12. West Sea developments prompted backing for Korean nuclear sub, says acting US envoy
13. N.K. soldiers briefly crossed MDL a day earlier: sources
14. US senators sound alarm over alleged sale of Trump-backed crypto to North Korea
15. Russia set to earmark $11M to search for oil off North Korea’s east coast
16. China postpones 3-way meeting of culture ministers with S. Korea, Japan

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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