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“Three No’s” Times Two: China’s

North and South Korea Policy

David Maxwell

Colonel David Maxwell, USA (ret.) is Vice President of the Center for Asia Pacific
Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Global Peace Foundation, where he focuses
on civil society support for a free and unified Korea. He is the Editor-in-Chief
of Small Wars Journal. He is a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Army, retiring as a
Special Forces Colonel and has worked in Asia for over 30 years, primarily in
Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. Colonel Maxwell served on the United Nations
Command/Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea CJ3 staff
and later served as the Director of Plans, Policy, and Strategy and then Chief of
Staff for the Special Operations Command, Korea, among other duties. Following
retirement, he served as the Associate Director of the Security Studies Program
at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (2011-2017). He is a fellow
at the Institute for Corean-American Studies, an advisor to Spirit of America, and
on the Board of Directors of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea,
the International Council of Korean Studies, the Council on Korean-US Security
Studies, the Special Operations Research Association, the OSS Society, and the
Small Wars Journal. He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Miami University,
and an M.A. in Military Arts and Science from the U.S. Army Command and
General Staff College and from the School of Advanced Military Studies, and an
M.S. in National Security Studies from the National War College.

Section I : North Korea-China Relations: How and Why Does Beijing Protect and Empower Pyongyang?