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7/20/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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07.20.2025 at 03:49pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. No Sympathy for the Devil (BookReview/interview – The Persistence of the Ideological Lie )
2. Microsoft to stop using engineers in China for tech support of US military, Hegseth orders review
3. Air Force will buy more KC-46s, skip competition
4. The Big Five – 20 July edition by Mick Ryan
5. ASEAN is collapsing, and nobody wants to admit it
6. 4 reasons why Trump should reject China’s invitation to its military parade
7. ‘Top Gun’ for drones: Pentagon plans August exercise with FPV drone units
8. Chinese Rare-Earth Magnet Exports Surge After U.S. Trade Truce
9. On Ukraine War, Trump Proves His Foreign Policy Is Pragmatic and That Adversaries Who Defy Him Will Face Consequences
10. Time for QUAD to step up to Taiwan’s defense
11. U.S. Special Operations Drones Get Game-Changing Upgrade to Launch Secretive Attack Drones
12. Non-State Special Operations, with Craig Whiteside
13. Defense of the Homeland: A National Strategy for Combating Irregular Warfare
14. As Trump Courts a More Assertive Beijing, China Hawks Are Losing Out
15. Two Days Inside the Movement to ‘Reindustrialize,’ and Rearm, America
16. Trump Aides Discussed Ending Some SpaceX Contracts, but Found Most Were Vital
17. Ukraine Keeps Sinking Russian Ships In The Black Sea Without A Conventional Navy — Here’s How
18. Why this is China’s golden age of hacking
19. Opinion | Why the global balance of power is shifting in China’s favour
20. Why Plato Matters Now

 

Korean News Content:

1. Russia-North Korea alliance spearheads brutal new world order, says expert
2. What Is South Korea’s New K3 Main Battle Tank?
3. The Ripple Effects of U.S. Reciprocal Tariff Policy on the ROK-U.S. Alliance
4. Japan and South Korea know the way to compete with China and US
5. From propaganda to passion: N. Korean TV show mimics K-drama to fend off banned media from the South
6. Top security adviser heads for U.S. as tariff deadline nears
7. N. Korea boasts of rich wheat harvest despite int’l concerns about food shortage
8. Special counsel questions unification minister in martial law probe
9. Special counsel detains drone command chief in martial law probe
10. Hanwha Philly Shipyard mulls joining U.S. Navy ship project
11. Foreign ownership of Samsung Electronics tops 50 pct again
12. UN land mine experts visit S. Korea to discuss reducing minefield risks
13. World Baseball Softball Confederation president visits N. Korea: KCNA
14. Czech deputy minister urges NATO, South Korea to broaden defense ties
15. Why Korea is suddenly talking about Arctic shipping route
16. FATBOY KIM Fridge-raiding Kim Jong-un ‘sparing no expense’ to get hands on Ozempic – but he’ll test on guinea pig civilians first

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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