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1/12/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.12.2025 at 05:52pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Soldier’s suicide exposes military’s struggle with mental health stigma
2. Gambling with Strategy: How Poker Theory Can Help Transform the Irregular Warfare Decision-Making Landscape
3. A Glossy Farewell: General Fenton’s Strategic Intent Misses the Mark
4. Russian mercenary caught with drone on U.S.-Mexico border
5. Trump vs. Scheinbaum – Migrant Caravans & Drugs Policies Weighed Against Trade
6. DOD Acquisition: It’s High Time for an Intervention
7. A Bipartisan National Security Agenda
8. Joni Ernst Has Pressing Questions for Pete Hegseth
9. Rubio nomination complicated by attack on Musk’s Tesla and China’s ban
10. A Big Idea to Solve America’s Immigration Mess
11. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 11, 2025
12. Iran Update, January 11, 2025
13. Myanmar’s Gen Z combatants: Guerrilla tactics against a military dictatorship
14. The Big Five – 11 January edition by Mick Ryan
15. How AI Will Change War
16. A flawed system: How Army Special Forces mental health care is failing elite soldiers
17. Hegseth’s views on women in combat expected to face scrutiny at Senate hearing

Korean News Content:

1. Standoff in South Korea Raises the Specter of Bloody Clashes No Doubt Welcomed by Kim Jong-un in North Korea
2. North Korean troops in Ukraine gain battlefield experience, cementing alliance with Russia
3. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 11, 2025
4. Ukraine releases first testimony from captured North Korean soldiers
5. Opinion | Why the US will not allow a nuclear-armed South Korea
6. Elizabeth Shackelford: Plight of South Korea’s democracy has lessons for us
7. “North Korean troops deployed to Russia are being used as human mine detectors”
8. Acting President Choi calls for bipartisan special counsel to resolve conflict over Yoon’s arrest
9. North Koreans fight over feces as annual ‘compost battle’ begins
10. North Korea’s newest luxury mall opens IKEA store, apparently without permission
11. ROK court administrator fined $140K over alleged North Korean data theft
12. Kim Jong Un Welcomes Donald J. Trump to Second Term
13. Black box from South Korea plane crash did not record final 4 minutes, officials say
14. N.K. soldier captured by Ukraine says he thought was going to training, not war: Kyiv
15. Yoon’s lawyer says president to be absent from first formal hearing in impeachment trial
16. HD Hyundai Heavy begins project to build 4 warships for Peruvian Navy

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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