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11/23/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.23.2025 at 06:42pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Trump Says Ukraine Peace Plan Isn’t Final After Criticism It Favors Russia
2. Seeking good relations with Xi’s CCP is a fool’s errand
3. Japan Blasts China’s UN Letter Claim as Baseless, Urges Dialogue
4. Japan’s export of lethal weapons to the US ‘extremely dangerous’: Chinese analysts
5. The Moment China Proved It Was America’s Equal
6. China’s act of war against PM Takaichi and Japan
7. The Failed Crusade to Keep a Rare-Earths Mine Out of China’s Hands
8. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
9. Lawmakers say Rubio distanced US from peace plan
10. Even 10,000 missiles won’t be enough: China’s sprint toward Taiwan invasion
11. The future of war is the future of society
12. Taiwan Defense Report Highlights Area Denial Progress
13. Civil Affairs, AI, and the Future of Army Readiness
14. How the Internet Rewired Work—and What That Tells Us About AI’s Likely Impact
15. More is needed to turn the Marine Corps’ aspirations into reality
16. How wargaming can help us prepare for modern crises
17. Hung Cao and the new Pacific defense architecture
18. Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize
19. Ukraine’s allies consider how to fill intelligence gaps if US backs out

Korean News:

1. Lee says S. Korea’s ultimate goal is reunification with N. Korea
2. Lee asks Chancellor Merz to share Germany’s reunification experience
3. Modernization, expansion ongoing at N. Korean nuclear complex: report
4. Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center: Modernization and Expansion in 2025
5. Quick Take: North Korea on US-Venezuela Tensions
6. South Korean Nuclear-Powered Submarine Plan: Unpacking China’s Moderate Reaction
7. Lee vows to host G20 summit in 2028 with ‘profound sense of responsibility’
8. Marine Corps marks anniversary of N. Korea’s 2010 shelling of border island
9. Lee holds separate talks with India’s Modi, Brazil’s Lula on sidelines of G20 summit
10. Number of Koreans aboard 1945 sunken Japanese ship likely to be unveiled by year-end
11. President Lee Jae-myung Calls Türkiye Strategic Partner in Defense, Nuclear
12. ROK Military Personnel: Building a Regime’s Army
13. Korean FDI Boosts U.S. Semiconductor Production
14. Experts warn that Korea may be unable to remain neutral in Japan and China’s dispute for long
15. Defense ministry seeks $16 mil. to cover cost of move back to Yongsan headquarters

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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