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

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01.25.2025 at 05:36pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Senate Confirms Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary as JD Vance Breaks Tie
2. America Is Now Counting on You, Pete Hegseth
3. SOF Competitive Campaigning in Great Power Competition
4. China-Taiwan Weekly Update, January 24, 2025
5. Why Donald Trump Is Racing So Fast to Remake America
6. America’s Fraught, Sometimes Deadly, History With the Panama Canal
7. NATO and Ukraine in the Trump 2.0 Era
8. Expert Q&A: Former Trump Ambassador on Why Ukraine ‘Must’ Win
9. Welcome to the Gray Zone and the Future of Great Power Competition
10. Free and Open Spaces: How Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Global Leaders are Rewiring Geopolitics
11. What did Rubio say about Taiwan independence? US, China at odds
12. Trump administration confuses government workers with email test message
13. How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of Its Gray Zone Strategy
14. Mexico refuses to accept a U.S. deportation flight
15. Why Is China Succeeding As A Peace Broker? – Analysis
16. The Undersea Cable War
17. It’s time for a new Key West agreement
18. Hegseth confirmed: This is where we find out his true mettle
19. Pacific Island Microstates and U.S. Security Cooperation: A Strategic Reassessment
20. It’s not conspiratorial to be worried about social media’s rightward swing
21. Anti-Trumpers Are So Worried About Misinformation They’re Spreading It Themselves
22. Zelenskyy says allies should work on ‘format’ for any talks with Russia
23. Trump fires multiple agency inspectors general—without proper notice, watchdogs say
24. Prime Target review — Leo Woodall shows equations can be lethal (fascinating series with a national security premise)
25. Secretary Hegseth’s Message to the Force
26. Wicker and Reed Announce SASC Subcommittee Leadership for 119th Congress
27. Trump says he could send US special operators after Mexican drug cartels. It could make things a lot worse.

Korean News Content:

1. Ousted South Korean defence minister testifies Yoon never intended full martial law
2. Prosecutors make another request for extension of Yoon’s arrest after court’s denial
3. Editorial: Lee Jae-myung’s trial must proceed without further delay
4. South Korean Fake News You Never Heard from the Foreign Media
5. N. Korea suspected of preparing for additional troop deployment to Russia: JCS
6. A former soldier in North Korea’s army says he was restricted to firing 3 bullets a year
7. Who Are the North Korean Soldiers Deployed to Russia? Analysis by a Former ‘Storm Corps’ Member (3) Poor Training and Hunger… Disappointment in Reality, Yet “I Was Willing to Be a Suicide Soldier”
8. <Inside N.Korea> News of North Korean Soldier Deaths in Russia Finally Reaches Home – Parents Scramble While Some Youth Volunteer: What’s Behind This?
9. Dutch contingent deployed at U.N. Command amid N. Korean threats
10. Rubio stresses U.S.’ commitment to Indo-Pacific allies in call with Chinese counterpart
11. Trump might eye N.K. diplomacy not tightly linked to denuclearization, but conducive to stability: experts
12. Half of South Korea’s exports to the U.S. fuel America’s manufacturing revival
13. North Korea Suffers 4,000 Casualties in Kursk as Coordination Between DPRK and Russia Falters – UK MoD
14. Court again rejects prosecutors’ request for extension of Yoon’s arrest
15. [Editorial] Far-right YouTubers
16. Trump releases first Quad joint communique after taking office
17. Trump says he will reach out to Kim Jon Un again
18. North Korea concludes parliamentary meeting, affirms focus on national defense

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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