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5/30/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.30.2025 at 01:54pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. Termination notices expected to go out to all remaining Voice of America employees this week

2. Democrats urge Rubio, Noem to protect USAGM foreign journalists

3. Beijing targeted friends of U.S.-based reporter amid campaign against Radio Free Asia, documents reveal – ICIJ

4. Protect Radio Free Asia – Stand With Journalists at Radio Free Asia

5. ANDREW NEIL: Putin just humiliated Trump. But was it a trap? There are White House whispers about what’s coming next

6. America Let Its Military-Industrial Might Wither. China’s Is Booming.

7. Targeting Chinese Students Threatens the Bottom Line at American Universities

8. Federal Authorities Probe Effort to Impersonate White House Chief of Staff

9. Trump Makes a New Push to ‘Decouple’ U.S. From China

10. Why the U.S. Opened Its Doors to Chinese Students, and Why Trump Is Closing Them

11. Special Forces and Operation Noble Obelisk (1997)

12. Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

13. Next Steps on Building an America First State Department

14. New plans detail State Department layoffs and changes

15. An Intellectual Preparation Guide for Joint Task Force Southern Border

16. US IT specialist arrested after attempting to share classified information with foreign government: DOJ

17. China snubs Asia’s largest defense forum as tensions with US simmer

18. Secretary Hegseth’s First Shangri-La Dialogue Speech: Why It Matters—and What to Watch For

19. The US Army is too light to win

20. Pentagon Weighs Bigger Army as Service Sees Early Recruiting Success

21. Nordic nations embrace total defense as the risk of sabotage and war rises

22. “Excellent” Calls and “Very Good” Talks but Little Clear Progress

 

 

Korean News Content:

1.US is leaving open the possibility of a troop drawdown in South Korea

2. Interviews with John Batchelor and Gordon Chang

3. Termination notices expected to go out to all remaining Voice of America employees this week

4. Protect Radio Free Asia – Stand With Journalists at Radio Free Asia

5. Exclusive: Lee Jae-myung Aims to Steer South Korea Through Crisis

6. ‘US troops critical’: South Korean presidential candidate signals turn on China policy

7. South Korea: Presidential candidates’ human rights policies surveyed

8. US troops in Korea may soon switch focus from Pyongyang to Beijing

9. Ex-top U.S. envoy says geopolitical challenges in Indo-Pacific cannot be looked at in ‘stovepiped way’

10. Early-voting turnout hits 34.74 pct ahead of presidential election

11. S. Korea approves domestic operations of Starlink, OneWeb satellite internet services

12. 3 things to watch ahead of June 3 South Korea presidential vote

13. N. Koreans criticize mass arrests after destroyer launch disaster

14. N. Korean women’s union lectures promote ‘powerful state’ claims despite economic reality

15. Fears of a purge in shipyard town after North Korea destroyer launch goes wrong

16. Former Ambassador Harris: “US Will Not Weaken Promise to ‘Defend Korea’”

17. Farewell Message from General (Ret.) Curtis M. Scaparrotti (Korea Defense Veterans Association)

 

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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