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11/27/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.27.2025 at 04:42pm
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National Security News:

1. Exclusive | Trump, After Call With China’s Xi, Told Tokyo to Lower the Volume on Taiwan
2. Leaked U.S.-Russia Call Sets Off Global Game of Clue: Who Did It—And Why?
3. Germany’s Secret Plan for War With Russia
4. The JD Vance Classmate Emerging as a Key Player in Talks to End the Ukraine War
5. Evaluating the Twin Threats of Unsustainable Debt and China’s Ambition
6. China seeks “alternative world order,” U.S. commission warns
7. (Taiwan) Lawmakers raise awareness of CCP’s cognitive warfare
8. From Kabul to Kyiv, Trump’s pattern is clear – negotiate with enemies, sideline allies
9. Trump brushes off concerns about Witkoff’s interactions with Russians
10. Pete Hegseth Is Wrong: America Needs Career Academics in the Service Academies
11. What Is Steve Witkoff Trying to Do?
12. Where Trump Sees Deals, Russia and China See a Chance to Disrupt U.S. Alliances
13. Special Forces Identity Crisis
14. U.S. 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment Explained as Unit Operates in Caribbean Near Venezuela
15. Special Operations Forces in Large-Scale Combat Operations
16. China’s Taiwan options narrow as U.S., allies fortify key waterways
17. Dispatch from Taipei: Now is the time to encourage Taiwan’s assertiveness, not hold it back
18. Reloading at Sea: Addressing America’s Overlooked Naval Vulnerability
19. The Future of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles in the Maritime Battlespace
20. Little Spartans: How Small State Militaries Use Special Forces to Punch Above Their Weight
21. The Paradox of Europe’s Trumpian Right
22. George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

 

Korean News:

1. We need to finally take the North Korean threat seriously
2. JCS chief, USFK commander visit U.N. Command security battalion
3. N. Korea’s Kim inspects construction site of greenhouse farm in Sinuiju
4. S. Korea confirms successful 4th Nuri rocket launch; main satellite establishes contact
5. S. Korea, Japan hold 1st science, tech cooperation meeting in 16 years
6. How South Korea’s Nuclear Submarines Could Reshape the ROK–U.S. Alliance
7. Whatever Happened To Human Rights?
8. Forbidden Technology: What North Korea’s Smartphones Reveal About the Regime
9. Navy Drills Target North Korea’s Deadly Frogmen Threat
10. Kim Jong Un says mega farm project chiefly about cultivating patriotic youth
11. Seoul to expand no-fly zone around Blue House amid North Korean drone threats
12. Presidential office vows legal action over fake presidential statement posted online
13. China’s accountability on dust pollution
14. Seoul confirms death of Korean volunteer fighter in Ukraine
15. Yellow plates in Pyongyang are sign of North’s future

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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