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2/3/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.03.2025 at 02:04pm

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National Security News Content:

!. Everyone’s Rattled by the Rise of DeepSeek—Except Nvidia, Which Enabled It
2. 90-Day Breakup: America’s Policy Misstep in Pausing Foreign Assistance
3. Trump’s Move to Put Tariff Hikes Ahead of Tax Cuts Has Spooked Almost Everyone
4. Beijing Prepares Its Opening Bid to Talk Trade With Trump
5. The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins
6. Donald Trump’s Tariffs: A 21st Century Smoot-Hawley Disaster?
7. Trump’s Tariffs Usher In New Trade Wars. The Ultimate Goal Remains Unclear.
8. Trump moves to wrest control of USAID as Musk says ‘we’re shutting it down’
9. Deliberately Degrading American Government
10. One Response to Trump’s Tariffs: Trade That Excludes the U.S.
11. The Tulsi Gabbard hearing: A rare Washington demonstration of courage by Douglas Ollivant
12. Manufacturing Towns Hit by the ‘China Shock’ Bounced Back. The Workers Didn’t.
13. ‘We’ve got to get faster’: Army’s top enlisted leader sees how new war strategy fares in German crucible
14. “America First” vs. Primacy by Reid Smith; Mitch McConnell
15. The Path to a Transformed Middle East
16. Russian Malign Influence Campaigns Expand Onto Bluesky
17. Will DeepSeek deep-six the US economy?
18. Questioning China’s ability to actually fight
19. Trump’s path to Ukraine peace becoming more apparent
20. Inside the Pentagon’s War Games: Can the U.S. Military Defend Taiwan from China?
21. The Electricity Front of Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Korean News Content:

1. Preoccupied with its troops in Russia, North Korea unlikely to embrace Trump’s overture soon
2. Motivated, disciplined, well-equipped: North Koreans in Ukraine defy expectations
3. SECDEF Hegseth Affirms U.S. Commitment to Japan, South Korea During Defense Chief Calls
4. North Korean troops pull back in Kursk as Pyongyang prepares fresh deployment, officials say
5. Better armed, but no helmets: How North Koreans fought Ukraine
6. JCS chief vows firm response to N.K. threats in border inspection with UNC deputy chief
7. U.S. Air Force unit in S. Korea conducts readiness drills despite heavy snow
8. Seoul to create sculptures of gratitude for 22 Korean War allies
9. Criminal trial of indicted Yoon on insurrection charges to begin Feb. 20
10. Appeals court upholds acquittal of Samsung Chairman Lee in 2015 merger case
11. Editorial: As Trump’s trade war escalates, South Korea braces for impact
12. N. Korean professor arrested for running drug ring with students
13. Stupidest trade war with no allies and no friends
14. N. Korea expands military and oil facilities at Nampo Port

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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