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

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11.25.2025 at 03:24pm
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National Security News:

1. How the U.S. Drafted a Russia-Friendly Peace Plan for Ukraine
2. Top Army Official Meets Russians in U.A.E., Signaling New Phase in Peace Talks
3. Pentagon Officials Begin ‘Grooming’ Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as Talk Grows Pete Hegseth Will Get the Boot Early Next Year
4. Opinion | What a Good Ukraine Peace Looks Like
5. Trump–Xi and Strategic Recalibration
6. Irregular Whorefare: How the CCP Turned Influence Into a Transactional Art
7. China’s Xi Rewrites History
8. CRINK in 10 Charts
9. China’s Xi Calls Trump in Unusual Move to Discuss Taiwan, Ukraine
10. Battle for Ukraine splits Trump’s top team
11. The Human Algorithm: Why Disinformation Outruns Truth and What It Means for Our Future
12. Taiwan Has Reached Its Tipping Point
13. Russian Disinformation Comes to Mexico, Seeking to Rupture U.S. Ties
14. Xi Jinping pledges support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
15. Space-Guided Supremacy: How China’s Satellite Systems Strengthen its Missile and Hypersonic Forces
16. Aid Policy in East Africa Needs an Endgame
17. Book Review | Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice
18. Drones Aren’t Antithetical to Maneuver Warfare—They’re the Key to Unleashing its Effectiveness
19. A 15-Point Plan to Get to a Ukrainian-Russian Settlement
20. A Historic Resolution, an Unworkable Plan: The Uncertain Future of Gaza’s New Mandate
21. Moscow’s Offshore Menace
22. How Xi Played Trump

Korean News:

1. Editorial: President Lee Unaware North Koreans Can’t Access Internet
2. Unification minister meets U.S. envoy, stresses bilateral cooperation in resuming U.S-N.K. dialogue
3. Ex-U.N. chief Ban lauds S. Korea’s co-sponsorship of N. Korea human rights resolution
4. Space rocket Nuri positioned on launchpad ahead of 4th launch
5. Investigation underway into recent crash of U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone
6. Seoul cannot achieve peace with North Korea by waiting on US ‘approval’: Chung
7. N. Hamgyong province clamps down on private sale of rice
8. Lee calls broadcasting info to North Korea ‘foolish’ since everything’s online
9. Korea’s nuclear sub plan gains favor in Tokyo amid rising China tensions: Japanese expert
10. Lee’s ill-timed offer to suspend joint drills
11. What Japan-China tensions mean for Korea
12. Reaffirmed transactional diplomacy from Trump raises concerns for U.S. allies
13. South Korea’s nuclear debate is no longer taboo
14. U.S.-Korea shipbuilding alliance sets sail, but rough seas lie ahead

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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