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1/22/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.22.2025 at 04:39pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Pentagon Plans for Bigger U.S. Troop Role at Border
2. The U.S. Won’t Defeat China if Ambassadors Fail Upwards
3. Peace in Ukraine Needn’t Mean Russian Victory
4. The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
5. The New Front in America’s National Security: Combating Narcoterrorism
6. The Challenge of AI-Enhanced Cognitive Warfare: A Call to Arms for a Cognitive Defense
7. Trump’s foreign policy is all about China
8. Friend or foe? Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire
9. A Korean-style armistice for Ukraine?
10. Taking Taiwan: Will Xi or won’t Xi?
11. Uncertain, unnerved: U.S. allies in Asia brace for impact as Trump returns
12. Is it Time to End the American Global War on Terror? By Robert Bruce Adolph
13. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 21, 2025
14. Iran Update, January 21, 2025
15. Why Britain Should Scupper the Chagos Islands Deal
16. Ukraine is much better at combined arms operations than Russia
17. Exclusive: Rubio Outlines ‘Sweeping Change’ in Cable to U.S. Diplomats Worldwide
18. The Fallacy of the Abraham Accords
19. Donald Trump’s Biggest Foreign Policy Test: The Axis of Upheaval

 

Korean News Content:

1. “Two out of three South Koreans are ‘interested’ in North Korean human rights… regardless of political orientation”
2. South Korea’s President, Impeached and in Jail, Winning Support in Polls
3. Friend or foe? Trump’s threats against ‘free-riding’ allies could backfire
4. A Korean-style armistice for Ukraine?
5. The real insurrectionists in South Korea
6. FM Cho discusses alliance, N. Korea with new USFK commander
7. Incheon invites Trump to Operation Chromite commemoration event
8. Suicide and soap operas: North Koreans react to being Ukrainian POWs
9. Experts: “Trump Should Use Korea to Check China… Strengthening Defense Industry Cooperation Also Needed”
10. Editorial: S. Korea must prepare for Trump’s risks, seize potential opportunities
11. Living in fear: N. Korea intensifies security inspections along Chinese border
12. CIO under fire for excessive restrictions on detained President Yoon
13. Rubio stresses refocus on national interest as guiding mission of American foreign policy
14. Lessons from Ukraine: Why the US Army Needs to Rethink Engineer Reconnaissance
15. North Korea tells United Nations it is a ‘responsible nuclear state’
16. Former North Korean Senior Official: “Trump’s North Korean Condo Mention Was a Diplomatic Message”

 

About The Author

  • 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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