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2/1/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.01.2025 at 05:44pm

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National Security News Content:

1. How MAGA Won the ‘Sensitive Young Man’
2. The Manhattan Project Was Secret. Should America’s AI Work Be Too?
3. Sam Altman’s Answer to DeepSeek Is Giving Away OpenAI’s Tech
4. Identity Months Dead at DoD
5. National Black History Month, 2025 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION
6. Trump White House marks Black History Month while Defense Department declares ‘identity months dead’
7. FCC launches probe into NPR, PBS, opening new front in Trump’s attack on the media
8. DeepSeek’s Answers Include Chinese Propaganda, Researchers Say
9. The Malign Influence Of The People’s Republic Of China At Home And Abroad: Recommendations For Policy Makers
10. Chinese Chatbot Phenom is a Disinformation Machine
11. “ATLAS Highlights Report | Chinese State Influence”
12. 3 Part Series from David Stockman on Fiscal Responsibility, the Cold War – Plus the case to get out of NATO
13. Israel’s Operational Success and Strategic Shortcomings in the Gaza Strip
14. Trump’s ‘make peace or die’ message to Putin is deepfake. Yet it fooled Russians
15. Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting “small town America”
16. Venezuela Frees 6 Americans After Visit by Trump Envoy
17. Colby Jenkins: Performing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict
18. The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis: Can the All-Volunteer Force Survive?
19. How Ukraine Can Secure Peace Without NATO Membership
20. Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations as part of a new ‘rotation program’
21. Downed Black Hawk Was Practicing Secretive Evacuation Plans
22. Navy SEAL Whose Lacrosse Workout Left Tufts Players Hospitalized Is Called Unqualified
23. The Dynamics of Regime-Supporting Irregular Paramilitary Forces
24. Fill the Vacuum: Establish a Sustained Naval Presence in the Yellow Sea (Korean West Sea)
25. Defense Secretary Hegseth Says ‘All Options Will Be on the Table’ When Asked About Military Strikes in Mexico

Korean News Content:

1. Trump’s Second Term: Even More Engagement With North Korea Than Before?
2. Rep. Young Kim, Colleagues Honor Korean American Military Hero Col. Young Oak Kim
3. After Appalling Casualties, North Korean Troops Pulled from Front Lines in Kursk
4. North Korean Troops Vanish From Ukraine War’s Front Lines, Officials Say
5. Inside Kim Jong Un’s ZOMBIE army
6. Massive rallies in Seoul oppose, urge Yoon’s ouster
7. S. Korea’s Navy, Marine Corps to take part in Cobra Gold drills in Thailand
8. Yoon’s legal team requests recusal of 3 justices from impeachment case |
9. <Inside N. Korea> Mockery and Jeers about Kim Jong-un’s Daughter ‘Ju-ae’ Become Trending: “Some People Can Even Inherit a Country…” Seems to Reflect Dissatisfaction with Overwhelming Disparity
10. Fill the Vacuum: Establish a Sustained Naval Presence in the Yellow Sea (Korean West Sea)
11. Delicate tug of war: Addressing uncertainty of US-North Korea ties, policy ambiguity
12. North Korean Media, People’s Artist’s Representative Song ‘Erasing Unification’
13. 150,000 Koreans in U.S. subject to Trump’s deportation order: Report
14. Korea’s birth rates make the first turnaround in nine years
15. A bromance to Trump, but a headache to Kim?
16. Russian ship transporting North Korean weapons captured again at Najin Port
17. Hegseth reaffirms strong alliance with S. Korea during 1st phone talks with Seoul’s defense chief

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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