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8/20/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.20.2025 at 10:27pm
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National Security News Content:

1. Russia Draws Hard Line Over Security Guarantees for Ukraine
2. Putin Calls Zelensky the West’s Illegitimate Puppet. Can He Talk Peace With Him?
3. U.S. Is Prepared to Use Air Power to Support Planned European Force in Ukraine
4. China Teases Glimpse of Advanced New Weaponry at Military Parade
5. Critical Followership: Thinking, Failing, and Leading – Expanded Analysis
6. Meet GMARS, NATO’s next big rocket artillery system
7. Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 current and former government officials
8. Tulsi Gabbard axes nearly HALF of spy agency staff in earthquake ‘Deep State’ shake-up
9. Why Does Xi Keep Purging Loyalists? Look to Stalin and Mao for the Answer.
10. Power and Peril in Reagan’s Last Cold War Chapter
11. Citizenship reviews now ask immigrants to show “positive contributions” to U.S.
12. “Sabotaging” S-400 & Su-35 Deals, Russia Accuses The U.S. Of Hurting Its Arms Exports To India & Beyond
13. U.S. Allies Still Waiting for Tariff Relief on Autos and Steel
14. How Ian Fleming and His Spy Scheme Inspired a Broadway Show
15. Samuel Huntington’s Prussian Paradox: Clausewitz, Military Professionalism, and the Myth of a “Apolitical” Military

 

Korean News Content:

1. North Korea Has a Secret Long-Range Missile Base Near Chinese Border, Report Says
2. North Korea brands South ‘faithful dog’ of US, says reunification ‘will never’ happen
3. South Korea revives inter-Korean pacts despite North’s hostility
4. North Korea to take ‘immediate’ diplomatic steps to counter South: Kim Yo Jong
5. ROK military blocks unconverted POW from crossing into North Korea
6. North Korea’s Kim gives nuclear order
7. Lee, Trump may discuss U.S. troop cut, OPCON transfer as part of ‘alliance modernization’ in summit: expert
8. U.S. senator says Congress to review shipbuilding reforms after Lee-Trump summit
9. Defense chief reaffirms S. Korea-U.S. alliance with visit to key wartime command post
10. Nat’l Assembly speaker invited by China to attend World War II military parade
11. Lee to meet Bill Gates to discuss global health issues, collaboration
12. Kim Jong Un orders unprecedented inspection of army corps security units

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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