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12/4/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.04.2025 at 12:58pm
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National Security News:

1. Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discords
2. Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers
3. Drones Fight Other Drones in the Battle for Ukraine’s Skies
4. War Department Asks Industry to Make More Than 300K Drones, Quickly, Cheaply
5. In Japan, public opinion turns against Trump’s ‘terrible, stupid’ US
6. America’s Magical Thinking About Ukraine – A Bad Deal Is Worse Than No Deal
7. Japan’s Sanae Takaichi moves to ease weeks of tensions with China over the Taiwan Strait
8. Navigating The All-Domain Battlespace: Introducing All-Terrain Planning
9. Ukraine’s SOF Redefine Recovery and Reintegration Under Fire
10. Poll finds increasing support for international engagement, Golden Dome spending
11. Pentagon Deploys New Kamikaze Drone Copied From Iranian Design
12. Strategic Disruption from Orbit: Space-Based Capabilities for Irregular Warfare in the Indo-Pacific
13. America First, Europe Fourth
14. Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself

 

Korean News:

1. How to Deter North Korea while Pursuing America First Policy
2. Lee Jae-myung’s Latest Policy Signals to North Korea
3. South Korean president weighs apology to North Korea over allegations of leafleting and drone use
4. South Korea’s Fractured Democracy: One Year After Martial Law
5. Recognizing Separation, Creating Peace: Rethinking ROK Constitutional Assumptions
6. Presidential office confirms 6 citizens detained in N. Korea, vows efforts to release them
7. Seoul raises military budget 7.5% for ‘self-reliant defense’ against North Korea
8. ‘Bull of peace’ laid to rest on border hill after drifting from N. Korea in 1996 flood
9. S. Korea to provide US$1.5 mln in humanitarian aid to flood-hit Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka
10. Lee considering visit to Japan next month for talks with Takaichi: report
11. Top diplomats of S. Korea, Pacific island nations to hold talks in Seoul next week
12. Seoul praises legal change banning activist balloon launches toward North Korea

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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