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1/20/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.20.2025 at 04:00pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Martin Gurri: Trump Has a Mandate to Lead. What Comes Next?
2. TikTok Restoring Service for U.S. Users, After Trump Signals He Will Save It
3. Adapting to Big Change: The New Challenges of Modern Warfare
4. Trump to Call for ‘Revolution of Common Sense’ in Inaugural Address
5. First Israeli Hostages Released Under Gaza Cease-Fire
6. Drone Makers Looking to Steer Clear of China Fear Beijing’s Wrath
7. Biden pardons Fauci and Milley in an effort to guard against potential revenge by Trump
8. Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here’s what he’s proposed
9. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 19, 2025
10. Iran Update, January 19, 2025
11. Colluding with the Communists: The Dixie Mission to Mao
12. TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet
13. TikTok Butters Up Trump, Again and Again
14. Welcome to Weimar 2.0 by Robert D. Kaplan
15. The US Pivot to Asia Depends on Peace in Ukraine
16. Why China probably isn’t panicking over Trump
17. Biden’s bitter legacy on Ukraine
18. Tracking Trump’s national-security conflicts of interest
19. China’s Soft Power Play: How Video Games Are Boosting Beijing’s Global Influence
20. Donald Trump 2.0 and The Next Era of Superpower Competition
21. The Trump-Biden-Trump Foreign Policy

Korean News Content:

1. John Batchelor Show: #SOUTH KOREA: Beijing and Pyongyang use lawfare against Constitutional order and President Yoon.
2. Inside an Elite Ukrainian Unit’s Mission to Capture a North Korean Soldier
3. Suicides, new tactics and propaganda iPads: details from captured North Koreans expose new foe in Ukraine
4. What to make of Kim Jong Un’s reported messages to troops fighting Ukraine
5. Why Ukraine’s footage of North Korean POWs puts them and their families at risk
6. Top military officer inspects readiness posture against N.K. threats near NLL
7. Yoon to attend hearing of impeachment trial Tuesday
8. Investigators withdraw from detention center after failing to forcibly bring in Yoon
9. The North Korean Card in Ukraine
10. Yoon moved to solitary cell at Seoul Detention Center
11. Military commanders linked to martial law case dismissed from positions
12. Acting president likely to veto bill on special probe against Yoon: official
13. South Korea to develop indigenous ‘Iron Dome’ system
14. Editorial: Detention warrant for President Yoon raises concerns of judicial double standards
15. South Korea’s defense industry earns $9.5 bn in exports, with profits surge
16. Study or else: N. Korean workers face daily memorization drills on party policies
17. Classroom politics: N. Korean teacher loses position after failed attempt to skip militia drills
18. Why are lines at Incheon Airport getting longer? Security delays frustrate travelers

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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