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7/24/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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07.24.2025 at 11:04am

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. It’s not too late to spare this crucial intelligence agency (INR)
2. China’s strategy? Let Trump cook.
3. Chinese Hackers Are Exploiting Flaws in Widely Used Software, Microsoft Says
4. Russia and Ukraine Are No Closer to Peace After Trump’s Threats
5. China Flexes Muscles at U.N. Cultural Agency, Just as Trump Walks Away
6. Two U.S. generals speak, but is anyone listening?
7. How U.S. Forces Should Leave Europe
8. ‘Founders Films’ aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand
9. Building Strategic Lethality: Special Operations Models for Joint Force Learning and Leader Development
10. Trump administration unveils new AI Action Plan
11. Asia-U.S. Trade Deals Pick Up as Tariff Deadline Nears
12. China’s growing influence on Taiwan lawmakers prompts massive recall effort
13. China’s World War II victory parade: A supreme fiction
14. State Department approves $322 million in proposed weapons sales to Ukraine
15. Is Taiwan doing enough to repel a Chinese invasion?
16. Russia Is Losing Its Near Abroad
17. Illicit Liquidity as Battlespace: Rethinking Finance in Asymmetric Conflict
18. It’s Time to Think About (and Fear) Drones and Psychological Operations
19. The Pentagon’s Trillion-Dollar Nightmare: Bad Contracts Are Crippling the Military
20. The Army’s New AbramsX Might Be the Best Tank Ever

Korean News Content:

1. Korea faces new US demands in overhaul of military alliance
2. It’s Groundhog Day… again… South Korea’s endless summit cycle
3. How South Korea gave $9.4M to US think tanks while evading foreign agent laws
4. Kim Jong Un tests ‘combat deployment’ readiness at artillery drills
5. North Korea’s Kim urges troops to prepare ‘for real war’
6. Seoul not currently planning to invite Kim Jong Un to APEC summit in South
7. A New York church is set to become a platform for pro-North Korea propaganda
8. S. Korea to propose over US$100 bln in investment as part of tariff deal with U.S.: sources
9. Lee’s top security aide meets U.S. officials ahead of tariff deadline
10. FM Cho eyes visit to U.S. next week for talks with Rubio after ‘2+2’ tariff talks falter
11. Seoul, Tokyo top diplomats vow to strengthen ties in 1st phone call
12. S. Korea not to resume anti-N.K. propaganda broadcasts unless Pyongyang does first: official
13. Korea faces pressure amid U.S.-Japan tariff pact
14. US cancels high-level tariff talks with Korea at last moment
15. Jim Heller set to be deputy chief at US Embassy in Seoul
16. South Korea’s Strategic Gamble With A Trump-Led US – Analysis
17.  Diplomacy At A Crossroads: Ending The Korean Peninsula Standoff

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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