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1/26/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.26.2025 at 04:11pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. American Society Was Built for Populism, Not Elitism
2. Trump’s first-week strategy: ‘Flood the zone.’ Repeat.
3. The Laws of War Are Not Recommendations
4. Goodbye, ‘Resistance.’ The Era of Hyperpolitics Is Over.
5. Ex-spies say suburban D.C. casino would put nation’s secrets at risk
6. Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed and on the Defensive
7. Narco Tribunals: Gender-Based Violence as a Tool of Power in the Favelas
8. ‘The Cartels’ are Not Foreign Terrorist Organizations
9. 39 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America
10. From Z to X: How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for Trump and Musk
11. C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
12. Musk Plan for Retooling Government Takes Shape, but Big Questions Loom
13. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 25, 2025
14. Iran Update, January 25, 2025
15. Neither War nor Peace: The China Challenge of Now
16. More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots

 

Korean News Content:

1. Can Trump handle today’s Korean peninsula?
2. South Korea’s Impeached Leader Is Indicted on Insurrection Charges
3. “Insult to the democracy of the Republic of Korea… Rep. Kim Young must apologize immediately.”
4. N. Korea test-fires strategic cruise missile: KCNA
5. N. Korea vows ‘toughest counteraction’ as long as U.S. rejects its sovereignty
6. General Douglas MacArthur’s Birthday and His Last words about Russia, China, and North Korea
7. 3 S. Korean shipbuilders rank among top 10 in global new orders
8. N Seoul Tower, Tokyo Tower to light up next month to mark 60th anniversary of S. Korea-Japan ties
9. Japan and South Korea were stable U.S. allies. Not anymore.
10. Editorial: The Democratic Party’s misuse of impeachment motions must stop
11. Navigating Korea’s tumultuous path to growth in 2025
12. Letter to President Trump (from the editor of the Korea Times)
13. [Washington Talk] “Trump’s 2nd term, a new phase for the US-ROK alliance… Coordination of ‘strategy toward China’ needed”
14. U.S. House of Representatives Proposes Resolution to ‘Reaffirm Importance of U.S.-ROK Alliance’… First Korean Peninsula Agenda Item of the New Session
15. Trump’s closest aide: “Considering suspending US-ROK military exercises”

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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