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9/28/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.28.2025 at 02:58pm
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National Security News Content:

1. Rebuilding the Human Edge: Restoring Special Forces’ Core Competencies
2. Albert Peter Dewey: the first American fatality in Vietnam
3. Russia Hits Ukraine With Massive Overnight Attack
4. Is There Any Role for the United Nations in Trump 2.0?
5. New documentary scrutinizes the lies that fueled the war in Afghanistan
6. The U.S. Military’s Great Drone Crisis Has No Easy Fix
7. Tomahawks, NATO’s “War on Russia” and Russian Gas Shortages – 28 September update
8. Xi Is Chasing a Huge Concession From Trump: Opposing Taiwan Independence
9. Zelensky says Trump understands battlefield, has ‘faith in Ukraine’
10. Trump’s Gaza peace plan leaves door ajar for Palestinian state
11. China at UN warns against return to ‘Cold War mentality’
12. “War Without Harm”: China’s Hybrid Warfare Playbook Against Taiwan
13. Commentary: Japan faces a fundamental dilemma on counterstrike missiles
14. China steps into climate leadership role with new goals as the US falls behind: Analysts
15. The Rise of America’s Young Socialists—From the 2008 Financial Crisis to Mamdani
16. Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans

 

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea cracks down on ‘I love you’ as decadent expression
2. Kim Jong Un’s strategic gamble on a post-Western order
3. Another Trump-Kim Meeting May Be in the Works Despite North Korea’s Unwavering Stance Against Denuclearization
4.  With Trump, Xi visits in sight, S. Korea eyes APEC summit to advance N.K. peace bid, tariff talks
5. Right-wing civic groups hold anti-China rally in Seoul
6. N. Korea to grant pardon to convicted people on occasion of key party anniv.
7. S. Korea, U.S. to launch working group to address visa system this week
8. Presidential office says S. Korea, U.S. discuss currency manipulator issue
9. US eyes partnership with Korea for maritime radar in waters claimed by China
10. Trump’s alarming overreach ($350 billion)
11. Editorial: Korean Tensions Stem from Kim Dynasty’s Invasion, Terror, Nuclear Arms
12. A North Korean general’s forgotten memoir illuminates the regime’s brutality
13. What Kim Jong-un wants
14. How ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Went Global: Myth, K-Tradition, Fandom

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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