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1/2/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.02.2025 at 04:51pm

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National Security News Content:

1. New Year’s Violence Rattles U.S.
2. The Descent of an Army Vet Turned Corporate Consultant Named in the New Year’s Attack
3. Driver in Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion identified as Colorado Springs resident: Sources
4. What Matthew Livelsberger’s social media reveals about Cybertruck suspect
5. 150 homemade bombs seized from Virginia farm is “largest” in FBI history, prosecutors say
6. Dual-Use Is a Strategy, Not a Category (Nor a Trap)
7. Why mainland China’s Taiwan integration experiment in Fujian is starting to fizzle
8. The Eurasian Century (Q&A:  Mick Ryan and Hal Brands)
9. Here is the military service record for the New Orleans attack suspect
10. Psychedelic therapy begins in Colorado, causing tension between conservatives and veterans
11. There are so many drones in Ukraine that operators are stumbling onto enemy drone feeds and picking up intel
12. Here’s Where Trump’s Pentagon and National Security Nominees Stand Ahead of New Year
13. A Ukrainian drone pilot has a novel plan to smash Russia’s formidable defenses
14. Russia’s Imperial Mindset: Understanding the Roots of the Ukraine War
15. Project 33 Is Enabling Joint All-Domain Operations in the Indo-Pacific
16. The US will have a Happy New Year if Trump takes 4 pieces of advice
17. A China-Taiwan War Would Start an Economic Crisis. America Isn’t Ready.
18. How an FBI Sting Stopped a Russian Smuggler but Not His Hong Kong Supply Route
19. FBI found 150 homemade bombs at Virginia home during search in December, prosecutors say
20. Don’t Repeat in Syria the Mistakes of Afghanistan
21.  A Last Chance for Iran
22. Irregular Warfare in 2024: Lessons Learned, Paths Forward
23. Who was Matthew Livelsberger, the US Army veteran named as a suspect in the Cybertruck explosion?

Korean News Content:

1. Political Turmoil Escalating in South Korea as Impeached President Battles To Regain Power
2. Concerns grow over potential clash as investigators likely to execute warrant to detain Yoon
3. Acting defense minister meets U.S. ambassador, reaffirms alliance
4. Conservative groups mobilize amid speculation over Yoon’s arrest
5. Military denies allegations it sent leaflets across border to induce N.K. provocation
6. N. Korea’s Kim skips New Year’s visit to former leaders’ mausoleum for 2nd year in row
7. The tragedy of having arrest warrant issued for sitting president
8. [2024 in Review] Wither the Nuclear-based Alliance?
9. On N. Korea’s frozen rivers, competition thaws state control
10. Rare broadcast sparks speculation over Kim Yo-jong’s children
11. 2024: A jackpot year for North Korea’s cyber criminals
12. Korean Peninsula in top 10 conflicts to watch in 2025: Crisis Group
13. Yoon defies detention warrant, rallies supporters
14. Lifeblood of Korean economy
15. Defense Ministry to review dismissal of military commanders involved in martial law probe
16. [New Year’s Plan] Trump’s 2nd term is expected to increase pressure on Korea to contain China and increase defense spending
17. “Military messages at North Korea’s plenary meeting are reduced… Evidence of poor economy”

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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