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12/22/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.22.2024 at 05:35pm

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National Security News Content:

1. U.S. Navy Shoots Down Own Plane as Fresh Strikes Target Houthi Rebels in Yemen
2. Deception and Betrayal: Inside the Final Days of the Assad Regime
3. Biden’s top hostage envoy Roger Carstens travels to Syria to ask for help in finding Austin Tice
4. Biden’s international achievements are Trump’s opportunities
5. Ukraine’s Last Few M-1 Abrams Tanks Are Fighting In Kursk—And May Have Engaged North Korean Troops
6. Elon Musk’s wish list for DOGE
7. Inside the Monthlong White House Effort to Quell New Jersey Drone Frenzy
8. The Not-So-Secret Way Around U.S. Tariffs
9. Is it a Risk for America that China Holds So Much U.S. Debt?
10.What Trump’s decision to wade into spending fight tells us about the next 4 years
11. Many Videos That Purport to Show Drones in New Jersey Likely Show Planes, Visual Analysis Finds
12. Talent and Tech: Fielding and Wielding New Systems Requires the Right People
13. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 21, 2024
14. Iran Update, December 21, 2024
15. The Nippon Steel Deal Is Key To U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy
16. Is China The Greatest Threat To the USA?
17. New in SpyWeek: Musk Security Worries, Fox Kennedy Dumped, CIA Torture, Syria, Israel, China, OSINT Ironies and More

Korean News Content:

1. Don’t underestimate North Korean troops in Russia, ex-soldiers tell BBC
2. Ukraine’s Last Few M-1 Abrams Tanks Are Fighting In Kursk—And May Have Engaged North Korean Troops
3. Ukrainian military eliminated an odd North Korean weapon being used by Russia
4. Hanwha Ocean to Build First Two FFX Batch-IV Frigates
5. US approves possible sale of Korea’s Navy destroyer improvement program, related elements
6. Russia will abandon North Korea
7. Kim Jong Un ‘personally overseeing’ North Korean training for Ukraine amid losses
8. S. Korea, U.S. conducting joint research to block N.K. cryptocurrency heists
9. Main opposition urges acting president to sign special counsel bills or face consequences
10. Vice FM to visit U.S., Japan this week for talks on trilateral cooperation
11. S. Korea holds largest share of U.S. battery material import market in 2023
12. Shinsegae chairman says had ’10-15 minute talk’ with U.S. President-elect Trump
13. Unification minister, spy chief undergo questioning in martial law probes
14. North Korea is more surprised by Philippine submarine detection
15. Acting president, main opposition face own dilemmas amid power struggle

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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