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2/9/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.09.2025 at 06:26pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Falsehoods Fuel the Right-Wing Crusade Against U.S.A.I.D.
2. ‘Aiding chaos’: USAID’s role in engineering regime change, social unrest worldwide
3. OVERRIDE: INSIDE THE REVOLUTION REWIRING AMERICAN POWER
4. DOGE’s First Round of Cuts Went to Trump Priorities, but Bigger Targets Await
5. Heart Attacks Rise During the Super Bowl. You Can Take Precautions.
6. Reimagining the American War Machine
7. ‘We’ve Already Won’: Podcasters and Influencers Gain New Standing in Trump’s White House
8. Trump’s Role in TikTok Talks: Dealmaker in Chief
9. Taiwan sends officials to US to discuss possible Trump tariffs
10. Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum
11. How TikTok became a religious pulpit
12. Elon Musk is shredding America’s government as he did Twitter
13. 7 Chinese balloons detected around Taiwan within 24 hours
14. Visualizing the international reach of U.S. funding cut by Trump
15. Trump’s Loyalty Test Presses Jobseekers on Ties to Disfavored Republicans
16. U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test
17. Booz Allen Removes Subcontractor Who Wrote Report on DOGE Access
18. Internships rescinded. Jobs lost. Foreign affairs students ask: What now?
19. Prebunking Elon Musk’s Super Bowl Propaganda
20. ‘Trump study sessions’: How Japan PM’s homework paid off
21. Trump Lets Japan Off the Hook on Trade — at Least for Now
22. Europe’s Trump Playbook: Offer Carrots but Warn That You Have a Big Stick
23. Opinion: Lavrov Compares Trump’s ‘America First’ to Nazi propaganda

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea’s Kim says U.S. causing ‘conflicting structure,’ vows to bolster nuclear forces
2. Chinese Embassy in Seoul says opposes ‘rashly’ linking China to S. Korea’s domestic affairs
3. Thousands of N.K. laborers sent to work in Russia in 2024: S. Korea’s spy agency
4. ＜Inside N. Korea＞DPRK Issues Mass “Money Vouchers” to Combat Soaring Prices – Value Quickly Plummets as Public Trust Erodes
5. North Korean Troops Resume Combat in Russia’s Kursk Oblast
6. New Alliance Dynamics in and Around Korea
7. North Korea’s Kim Vows Continued Support For Russia’s Military Amid Heavy Losses
8. Anti-China sentiment grows among pro-Yoon supporters amid martial law fiasco
9. Seoul-Washington dialogue
10. DeepSeek gives different answers about kimchi’s origin: ‘Korea’ in Korean, ‘China’ in Chinese: Seoul spy agency
11. Squid Game 2 named Best Foreign Language Series at Critics Choice
12. How Polarization Undermines Democracy in South Korea
13. Lessons from Japan’s ‘flattering diplomacy’ with Trump (for Korea)
14. North Korea to punish people for spreading ‘rumors’ of soldiers dying in Russia
15. North Korean military angry at Russia’s handling of consumables

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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