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12/20/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.20.2024 at 02:28pm

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National Security News Content:

1. House rejects Trump-backed plan on government shutdown, leaving next steps uncertain
2. House Rejects GOP Plan Backed by Trump as Government Barrels Toward Shutdown
3. Trump Warns Europe to Buy More U.S. Oil and Gas or Face Tariffs
4. Taiwan Is Getting Its U.S. Weaponry—but Years Behind Schedule
5. More Than Twice as Many U.S. Troops Are in Syria as Previously Disclosed
6. The Year Ahead for U.S. Foreign Policy: Navigating Changes and Challenges
7. Anticipating the Character of War: Looking Out to 2030 by Mick Ryan
8. Why the Salt Typhoon Hack Is Freaking Everyone Out
9. Trump’s transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.
10. Necropolitics and Counterinsurgency: The Costs of Population Resettlement in Small Wars
11. Next Harding Fellows selected, program expanded
12. Swedish police board Chinese ship in probe over severed cables
13. Looming government shutdown could hurt military families, veterans
14. Senior U.S. Diplomats Arrive in Syria to Meet With Governing Militias
15. Why China Isn’t Scared of Trump
16. The Path to a Better Syria
17. How to Stop a Trade War
18. Cyber Campaign Plans and Other Fairy Tales
19. China reacts to US’s military power report
20. When Gen. George Patton Called on God

Korean News Content:

1. Gen. Brunson takes office as new USFK commander with vow to bolster S. Korea-U.S. alliance
2. Don’t bypass S. Korea
3. Acting defense chief, U.S. Indo-Pacific commander underscore trilateral security cooperation with Japan
4. Why Kim Jong-un’s Reform Desire Has Cooled
5. Russians see North Koreans as a ‘burden’ over ignorance of drones: South says
6. Korea needs to address polarization, upgrade its democracy
7. Ukrainian military unveils footage of drone attacks on NK soldiers: report
8. ‘North Korean Killer’ Drone Double-Sided… Scattering Surrender Leaflets
9. N. Korea’s flood victims brought to Pyongyang write letters of thanks to leader Kim
10. N. Korea arrests former trade official in Chinese phone crackdown
11. UN General Assembly adopts resolution on N. Korean human rights for 20th straight year
12. S. Korean shipbuilders to retain edge in high-value vessels despite order slump
13. North Korean Troops Launched Large-Scale Combat Operations In Kursk: Officials
14. Martial law teaches an essential lesson: leaders must listen
15. Researcher: North Korea can produce ballistic missiles for Russia to use against Ukraine in months
16. Moving Forward on North Korea: The Case for Bold Transitional Justice Initiatives in South Korea
17. Drone defense, bombing practice keep US, South Korean forces busy
18. Lazarus Group Spotted Targeting Nuclear Engineers with CookiePlus Malware
19. N. Korea arrests former trade official in Chinese phone crackdown
20. NK responsible for 61% of global cryptocurrency heists: Chainalysis
21. Former general implicated in Dec. 3 martial law plot ran fortune-telling business: Reports
22. Can Trump Work With South Korea’s Left?
23. Voice of America (VOA) Interview with Col. David Maxwell (Ret.) discusses U.S.-Republic of Korea Alliance after coup attempt

About The Author

  • David Maxwell

    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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