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12/28/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.28.2024 at 05:03pm

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National Security News Content:

1. SOF Renaissance: People Win Transform
2. U.S.’s Channels With China Have Gone Dark With Trump’s Return
3. What ‘Engagers’ Got Right About China
4. What Went Right in 2024? For One Thing, Free and Fair Elections
5. It Was a Bad Year for the World’s Autocrats
6. Kyiv Anxiously Awaits Confirmation of Next CIA Director
7. WATCH: HUR Posts Video of Train Sabotage Near Moscow
8. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 27, 2024
9. Iran Update, December 27, 2024
10. The U.S. Navy Has A History of Shooting Down the Wrong Planes
11. The Iranian Regime Is Crumbling – Time for Max Pressure
12. Trump rethinks firing Joint Chiefs chairman after one-on-one meeting, sources say
13. Putin apologises to Azerbaijan president over ‘tragic’ plane crash in Russian airspace
14. A global boom in cocaine trafficking defies decades of anti-drug efforts
15. Ukraine Uses Bird Nests to Nab Russian Saboteurs Planning Train Derailment
16. Has Russia’s Shadow Fleet, Built to Evade Sanctions, Added Sabotage to Its List?
17. Advanced US air-defence system used for first time in Israel
18. China is building new detention centers all over the country as Xi Jinping widens corruption purge
19. Time for a Pacific Charter
20. Government watchdog greenlights Army’s new spy plane contract, denies L3Harris’s protest
21. Wanna Become a U.S. Navy SEAL? Good Luck With That
22. How Do You Become A Green Beret?

Korean News Content:

1. U.S. is ready to work with acting President Choi, strongly supports ‘ironclad’ alliance: State Dept.
2. UN “Trusts Korea’s Commitment to Democratic Principles” … UK “Will Continue Cooperation”
3. US-Japan, Drafting Extended Nuclear Deterrence Guidelines… “Response to North Korean Nuclear Threat Also Affects Security on the Korean Peninsula”
4. Ukraine discloses diary of fallen N.K. soldier | Yonhap News Agency
5. Rallies for, against Yoon’s impeachment held 1 km apart
6. [Special Roundtable: The Path North Korea Is Taking] ① “Complete Severance from South Korea Due to Regime Instability”
7. N. Korea pays farm workers in devalued currency instead of grain
8. N. Korean youth shift to low-key end-of-year celebrations as cultural restrictions tighten
9. Editorial: Another impeachment could push Korea into chaos
10. Trump’s N. Korea policy may shake up security landscape on Korean Peninsula: think tank
11. Navigating political crises in Korea and Germany
12. Martial law and ‘K-defense’
13. Fallen Crypto Tycoon Do Kwon to Be Extradited to U.S.
14. North Korean defectors report highest-ever life satisfaction in 2024: Survey

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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