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3/8/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.08.2025 at 09:02pm

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National Security News Content:

1. FEMA’s top lawyer placed on leave after less than one week in role
2. Israel Draws Up New War Plans to Pressure Hamas
3. NATO Hunts for Sea-Cable Saboteurs but Can’t Find Proof
4. Trump Strong-Arms Leaders to the Table. Getting Them to Make a Deal May Prove Harder.
5. The Zelensky Spat Shows Us How Trump Sees the World
6. How the Biggest Crypto Hack Ever Nearly Destroyed the World’s No. 2 Exchange
7. Russia, Iran, China and N. Korea bond is “global problem”, says Trump envoy
8. Military power alone is not enough — international aid is vital to US security
9. U.S. suspends commercial satellite imagery service to Ukraine
10. The Trump Doctrine: The World Is a Zero-Sum Game
11. Trump considers pulling troops out of Germany
12. Betrayed by ‘blowhard’ Trump? Ally with us instead, says China
13. Japan Denies Trump’s Criticism Of Japan-U.S. Security Treaty
14. The US’ ‘transactional hegemony’
15. Braid: Invading Canada would spark guerrilla fight lasting decades, expert says
16. Inside Trump’s quiet takeover of the Gen Z streaming universe and its MILLIONS of followers … and the left is quaking
17. Ukraine’s intelligence disables locomotive transporting weapons from Russia
18. What we know about the alleged CIA facility briefly revealed by DOGE
19. America the Evil Mastermind? Not So Fast, Russians Are Told.
20. Putin Is Loving This – Russian state TV is sounding an awful lot like Trumpworld these days.
21. Democracy-promoting organization sues the Trump administration over withheld funds
22. 525. Operation Northeast Monsoon: The Reunification of Taiwan

Korean News Content:

1. Impeached Yoon released from detention
2. Russia, Iran, China and N. Korea bond is “global problem”, says Trump envoy
3. Yoon supporter in critical condition after self-immolation
4. Gov’t to declare Pocheon disaster zone after accidental bombing
5. How the Biggest Crypto Hack Ever Nearly Destroyed the World’s No. 2 Exchange
6. N. Korean leader inspects project to build nuclear-powered submarine
7. Trump mentions Taiwan, S. Korea while saying America lost chip business
8. Buddhist community, declaration of current situation against Yoon’s impeachment… “Early presidential election and cabinet system constitutional amendment will cause collapse of liberal democracy”
9. Assured distraction: How attacks on South Korea’s nuclear reactors could be a smoke screen for wider conflict
10. Experts: Freedom Shield Training Continues to Evolve to Counter China’s Malicious Threats
11. A North Korean base has mockups of South Korean cities, POW in Ukraine says
12. U.S. Special Envoy: “Possibility of Deploying Russian Troops in the Event of War on the Korean Peninsula”
13. North Korea-style ‘North Korean Aegis ship’
14. US civic group calls for dismissal of ‘Sumi Terry case’… “Threat to freedom of the press”
15. North Korean anti-regime group releases video of graffiti on Kim Il-sung’s tombstone

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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