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

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02.02.2025 at 05:24pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Expectations on the end of Putin’ War in UKraine and Contradictory Reporting
2.Pentagon Names Remaining Unidentified Crew Member Killed in Washington Crash
3. Trump to Order Aid Agency to Be Put Under State Department
4. Trump imposes tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, risking trade war
5. China denounces Trump tariff: ‘Fentanyl is America’s problem’
6. Commentary: Does Volvo’s Chinese ownership threaten US national security?
7. AI Is Wall Street’s Modern Gold Rush. Here’s How Investors Are Placing Their Bets.
8. What DeepSeek, Russian Sanctions and Guitar Amplifiers Teach Us About Global Competition
9. Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system
10. Trump Favors Blunt Force in Dealing With Foreign Allies and Enemies Alike
11. Trump’s Tariff Wall: Can Canada and Mexico Overcome Fortress America?
12. The profundity of DeepSeek’s challenge to America
13. Too late, US Commerce nominee calls DeepSeek a technology ‘thief’
14. My Decade with Donald Trump By Salena Zito
15. Trump puts tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, spurring trade war as North American allies respond
16. Shadow Games (Afghanistan Retrospective)
17. Trump’s Government Is Built on Secrecy
18. Fifty-two years after a U.S. spy plane was shot down over Laos, a family still fights for answers: Did the crew all perish or were half of them LEFT BEHIND?

 

Korean News Content:

1. Forging the future: Embracing responsibility, redefining strength in the Indo-Pacific
2. Who is Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s possible next president?
3. N. Korea says U.S. arms aid cannot ‘save’ S. Korea from strategic deficiency
4. Navy launches new fleet command amid heightened N.K. threats
5. The West is seeing Kim Jong Un’s army in action. The North Korean soldiers are brutal zealots undeterred in the face of death.
6. S. Korea companies brace for impact from Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico
7. S. Korea’s exports of gasoline, diesel hit record high in 2024
8. Police to develop deepfake detection system
9. How Trump’s push for an ‘Iron Dome’ aims to defend against North Korean threats
10. PRC structures are sign of sovereignty push against South Korea, analysts say
11. Korea overtakes Japan in per capita GDP on improved trade terms
12. Ideological rift widens in Korea over martial law fiasco
13. UN refuses to change ‘Chinese Lunar Calendar’ to more inclusive term on stamp sheet
14. [Washington Talk] “Trump Evaluates Korea as an ‘Asset’ Amid US-China Competition… Dependence on China Comes at a Price”
15. Russian military applies ‘squid game’ to drone countermeasure tactics

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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