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2/4/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.04.2025 at 02:00pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Trump Tariffs: China Hits Back With U.S. Penalties
2. Trump Blinks on North American Tariffs
3. Pray for Surrender in Trump’s Dumb Trade War
4. El Salvador Offers to Take U.S. Deportees of Any Nationality Including Imprisoned Americans
5. What to Know About USAID, the Agency Elon Musk Wants Dead
6. Army Set to Dramatically Grow Basic Training, Riding Recruiting High
7. Ukraine war briefing: Trump demands rare earths from Kyiv in exchange for aid
8. Ukrainian troops losing ground to Russia as Trump talks of ending war
9. Ukraine to Restructure Ground Forces? by Mick Ryan
10. Niger: Kidnapping of two Chinese nationals near an oil site
11. Priorities for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
12. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 3, 2025
13. Iran Update, February 3, 2025
14. Why Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces Must Regroup
15. National Security, Veterans at Risk in Trump Effort to Reshape Federal Workforce, Experts Warn
16. Trump says sovereign wealth fund could buy TikTok
17. Pentagon rescinds social media pause
18. Elon Musk tightens grip on gov’t, sparking ‘coup’ accusations
19. Trump to withdraw US from UN Rights Council, extend UNRWA funds ban: Report
20. Alleged Chinese Spies Arrested in the Philippines on Espionage Charges
21. Trump’s tariffs fit a growing global trend of hardball migration diplomacy
22. Five Key Principles for U.S. Irregular Warfare Strategy in the Gray Zone
23. Trump Has a Rare and Short Window to Solve the Iran Problem
24. American Leadership Is Good for the Global South
25. How Hezbollah Ends: The Path to a Better Lebanon
26. Biden Started a Process to Protect US National Security from China. Trump Should Finish It.

Korean News Content:

1. Michelle Steele Considered as First Ambassador to Korea in Trump’s Second Term; Disumbre Considered as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
2. S. Korea, U.S. in talks to arrange top diplomats’ meeting in Washington soon: Seoul
3. N. Korea begins celebrations for late former leader Kim Jong-il’s birthday
4. Sinuiju streets empty as authorities draft people for forced labor
5. N. Korean parents offer desperate bribes to save children from military draft
6. Liberal lawmaker’s recommendation of Trump for Nobel Peace Prize stirs controversy
7. NK expected to maintain hostile stance toward US, South Korea in 2025: experts
8. South Korea’s crisis in context
9. N. Korea orders 1.2-fold expansion of nuclear enrichment facilities
10. Inflow of N. Korean defectors increases by 20 pct in 2024: official
11. Yoon acknowledges troop dispatch to election commission during martial law decree
12. Yoon asks court to cancel his arrest over brief martial law attempt
13. Ex-military commander refuses to testify at Yoon’s impeachment trial
14. Former commander refutes ex-defense minister, shaman testifies before lawmakers
15. No allies safe in Trump’s global tariff war, including Korea
16. [Room 39, Lee Jeong-ho’s Eyes] “Russia Promises to Provide Farmland to North Korea in Return for Troop Deployment”
17. North Korea could send up to 25,000 additional troops to Russia: Zelenskyy
18. North Korean female teachers earn wages by carrying water during winter break

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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