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11/2/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.02.2025 at 05:54pm
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National Security News:

1. Next Question for Gaza Peace Plan: Who Wants to Police It?
2. China Is Filling Up Its Oil Reserves Fast
3. War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says
4. After Trump’s Early Exit From APEC, Asia’s Top Powers Seek Alignment on Trade and Security
5. EDITORIAL: Reassurance from diplomatic flurry (Asia-Indo-Pacific and ROK-Japan)
6. Reagan–Thatcher, Trump–Takaichi, and Cold War II
7. Trump Threatens Military Action in Nigeria Over Protections for Christians
8. These are the U.S. ships and aircraft massing off Venezuela
9. ‘A House of Dynamite’ gets a lot right. Experts hope that terrifies you.
10. The U.S. Army’s Drone Nightmare Is Coming True
11. Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.
12. Hegseth: Nuclear tests bolster credible strategic deterrence, lower risk of nuclear conflict
13. US and Cambodia to revive defence drills
14. How the Russian Orthodox Church Became a Weapon of Political Warfare
15. Hand of Moscow? The men jailed for vandalism in French hybrid warfare case
16. China’s new gateway into South America: the Port of Chancay
17. Afghanistan and the Long Shadow of Bagram
18. Tariffs are Trump’s favorite foreign policy tool. The Supreme Court could change how he uses them
19. Is it Time to End the American Global War on Terror?

 

Korean News:

1. N. Korea’s Kim inspects special operations unit’s war readiness
2. 5th spy satellite successfully put into orbit
3. S. Korea takes leadership role at APEC amid turbulent multilateral landscape
4. Lee vows to keep preemptive measures to promote peace efforts with N. Korea at APEC summit
5. After Trump’s Early Exit From APEC, Asia’s Top Powers Seek Alignment on Trade and Security
6. EDITORIAL: Reassurance from diplomatic flurry (Asia-Indo-Pacific and ROK-Japan)
7. Lee gets Xiaomi smartphones as gift from China’s Xi, quips about security
8. Lee gifts Xi with Go table, lacquerware
9. N. Korea, Russia discuss economic cooperation: KCNA
10. Hegseth stresses U.S. commitment to cementing ‘mutually beneficial’ partnership for Indo-Pacific security (Vietnam)
11. N. Korea says to hold key party meeting in mid-December
12. Trump at 5-Star Hilton, Xi at 4-Star Kolon for APEC Security Balance
13. Minister pushes two-track defense diplomacy balancing engagement and deterrence
14. North Korean rice prices drop nearly 30% in two weeks amid harvest season
15. Large-Scale Vehicle Smuggling Between North Korea and China: Structure and Background (1) Heading to Hyesan, the Hub of Vehicle Smuggling
16. Pyongyang’s mining recruitment crisis: Free housing can’t keep workers from fleeing

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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