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12/1/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.01.2025 at 03:01pm
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National Security News:

1. After ‘Productive’ Meeting With Ukrainian Negotiators in Florida, U.S. Officials Head to Russia
2. Opinion | Vladimir Putin Won’t Win on the Battlefield
3. Lessons From Venezuela For the Indo-Pacific
4. Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
5. Opinion | China Revives Economic Coercion to Punish Japan
6. Congress Opens Inquiries After Report That U.S. Targeted Boat-Strike Survivors
7. Trump says Hegseth told him he didn’t order killing of boat crew
8. The Army’s latest PSYOP recruiting ad reminds you: ‘We are everywhere’
9. Suspect in National Guard Shooting ‘Radicalized’ After Entry to U.S., Noem Says
10. Top Gun Traders: Stock Bets and Crypto Culture Take Over the Military
11. America’s Tariffs Jolted the Global Economy. Its AI Spending Is Helping Save It.
12. How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine
13. Open Questions | Taiwan is a complicated issue, but the way out is simple: ex-PLA colonel Zhou Bo
14. Fragmented frontiers: three approaches to understanding irregular warfare
15. Running Estimate (Crawling When We Need to Run)
16. When There Is No Off-Season (training and warfighting – WFX)
17. Taiwan’s plan to acquire drone ‘takeover’ technology sparks security debate
18. The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
19. Could the PLA use long-range rockets against ships in an attack on Taiwan?
20. Are Palestinians Ready to Shed Hamas?
21. The Best of Books 2025 – This Year’s Top Picks From Foreign Affairs’ Reviewers
22. Politics and War. Reality vs Expectations (Ukraine and Russia)

 

Korean News:

1. Abandoning Unification Invites Chinese Claims, Warns Ex-Vice Minister
2. Halifax Forum laid bare a depressing truth: No one has solutions on North Korea
3. A Potential Foreign Legion for Japan and South Korea Amid Military Shortfalls from Demographic Decline
4. Chinese trader says he sold over 2000 computers, graphics cards to North Korea
5. Oxford Study: North Korean Language Lacks Emotional Expressions
6. Lee vows to address unresolved ‘acts of insurrection’ ahead of 1st anniv. of martial law bid
7. S. Korea’s multipurpose satellite to be launched this week by European rocket
8. S. Korea recovers remains of soldiers killed during Korean War after resuming excavation at DMZ battle site
9. Hanwha Aerospace to present K9 howitzer, Chunmoo rocket system at Egypt defense exhibition
10. Hyundai Steel to unveil U.S. steel mill model at hydrogen expo
11. S. Korea’s exports rise 8.4 pct on-year to US$61.04 bln in Nov. on robust chip demand
12. 2 S. Koreans detained in Iran on smuggling charges
13. Yoon trial begins over Pyongyang drone allegations

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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