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1/18/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.18.2025 at 06:44pm

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National Security News Content:

1. For Trump’s national security adviser, Afghanistan still looms large
2. In a New Age of Empire, Great Powers Aim to Carve Up the Planet
3. A TikTok Ban Is Imminent: What Are the Financial Stakes?
4. Trump, TikTok and Xi Jinping
5. Voters Want MAGA Lite From Trump, WSJ Poll Finds
6. Left-Wing Cancel Culture Gets Canceled
7. Journal Writers Look Ahead to Trump 47
8. Can Trump Do Better the Second Time?
9. Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump
10. Trump Vowed a Crackdown on the Mexican Border, but It’s Already Quiet
11.How ‘Mild Bill’ Burns led a covert CIA campaign in Ukraine
12. Arrogance sank CNN
13. Ahead of dreaded TikTok ban, US ‘refugees’ flee to China’s Xiaohongshu app but not all are welcoming
14. Apple suspends iPhone AI news summaries due to errors
15. How resistance to Trump may look different in his second administration
16. Behind the Curtain: A chilling, “catastrophic” warning (from Jake Sullivan)
17. Military hopes new helmet will protect special forces from traumatic brain injuries (Canada)
18. Nobody is talking about Trump’s biggest foreign challenge (ISIS)
19. For the Incoming Administration: Remember Before Relegating or Dismissing NATO
20. Federal employees quietly edit job descriptions to protect roles from DOGE scrutiny
21. Modernizing and Simplifying Defense Resourcing: Updated and Expanded PPBE Reform Report Released
22. The 20th Century’s Lessons for Our New Era of War

Korean News Content:

1. YouTube election fraud conspiracy theories fuel impeached South Korean president and his supporters
2. Up to 44,000 rally in support of Yoon outside court
3. Court to decide on Yoon’s formal arrest as early as Saturday night
4. New US sanctions target North Korean IT workers in last hurrah under Biden
5. The Case for South Korea Prohibiting Anti-North Korean Leaflet Launches
6. S. Korea opens embassy in Cuba one year after establishing diplomatic relations
7. Yoon’s arrest fuels fervent reactions from supporters
8. N. Korea warns of taking action ‘more intensively’ over S. Korea, U.S., Japan’s air drills
9. PPP support rises as partisan gap reverts to pre-martial law state, Gallup poll finds
10. Korea’s settlement with Westinghouse paves way for future cooperation, Czech plant deal
11. NATO Takes Stock Of Cooperation With Japan And The Republic Of Korea
12. North Korea expert released after lengthy detainment in Switzerland for spying
13. North Korea smuggled nuclear weapons equipment from Spain: Report
14. Watch: North Korean Troops in Kursk Targeted by Attack Drones
15. US experts: “Kim Jong-un feels betrayed by Putin… will not deploy additional troops”
16. North Koreans show ‘superior combat readiness’ to Russian contractors: official

 

 

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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