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8/21/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.21.2025 at 10:23pm
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National Security News Content:

1. In Eastern Ukraine, Fear and Disbelief Over Proposal to Cede Land to Russia
2. China’s Xi Reminds Tibet That Beijing Is in Charge
3. How European Leaders Studied Trump and Learned to Speak His Language
4. Trump Orders Pentagon to Deploy Three Warships Against Latin American Drug Cartels
5. Survivability Drift Theory and Attrition Mitigation in Special Operations Forces
6. Trump Says Ukraine Has No Chance of Winning War Without Striking Russia
7. Tanks, Tech, and Tungsten: The Strategic Mineral Alliance the West Needs
8. ARCYBER chief’s advice to industry: Make interoperable tech and start at the edge
9. NATO defense chiefs to hold meeting on security guarantees for Ukraine
10. Preparing for the Silent Surge: Countering North Korea’s Gambit in a Dual Contingency
11. Ukrainian Suspected of Leading Nord Stream Sabotage Arrested in Italy
12. Reconstitution Under Fire: Insights from the 1973 Yom Kippur War
13. Opinion | One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems
14. The Tiny White House Club Making Major National-Security Decisions
15. Why the Nuclear Taboo Is Stronger Than Ever
16. When America stops leading, Asia starts looking elsewhere
17. Is Ukraine the Future of Asia?
18. Donald Trump’s fantasy of home-grown chipmaking
19. The Back Brief: The Airborne Mafia, The Mission, and the Ft. Bragg Cartel
20. Should America’s military plan for a retreat from the Pacific?

 

Korean News Content:

1. North Korea’s Top Officers Sent to Russia Are Abruptly Called Home
2. Preparing for the Silent Surge: Countering North Korea’s Gambit in a Dual Contingency
3. When America stops leading, Asia starts looking elsewhere
4. China’s North Korea Problem:  How America Can Encourage Beijing to Rein in Pyongyang
5. N. Korea’s Kim hails ground commanders of troops deployed in Russia’s war on Ukraine
6. N. Korea condemns Britain over warships’ visit to S. Korean port
7. Lee vows national interest-focused diplomacy ahead of summits with Trump, Ishiba
8. Hackers who exposed North Korean government hacker explain why they did it
9. Expert notes possibility of Trump raising ‘sensitive’ China issue in summit with Lee
10. FM Cho departs early for Washington ahead of Lee-Trump summit
11. North Korean denuclearization should start with weapons freeze: ROK president
12. Bill Gates calls on S. Korea to chart course for gradual hike in development aid spending
13. Editorial: Why hide North Korea’s human rights abuses?
14. Inside secret behind Hyundai Rotem’s K2 export breakthrough
15. North Korean elders mourned lost unification dreams on Aug. 15 anniversary
16. U.S. pressure mounts ahead of Lee-Trump summit
17. President to visit Hanwha’s US shipyard alongside summit with Trump

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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