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2/12/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.12.2025 at 02:32pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. JD Vance’s Tweet Is No Crisis
2. Is There a Constitutional Crisis?
3. Beware the Internet Mob—on USAID and Everything Else
4. Elon Musk Admits He Was Wrong About Gaza Condoms When Confronted By Reporter: ‘Some Things I Say Will Be Incorrect’
5. The Prophet of Trump’s Second Term
6. What DEI Isn’t
7. EXCLUSIVE: Trump Is Starving the National Endowment for Democracy
8. The World’s Policeman Goes Rogue
9. A Warning to Hamas: ‘Let Hell Break Out’
10. USAID Failed Because Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work
11. Elon Musk’s China Threat
12. White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP style policy on ‘Gulf of America’
13. Building Resilience: Closing the Climate Knowledge Gap in the U.S. Military
14. ALL HANDS: An Introduction to Trump’s National Security Approach & Team
15. Microsoft announces plan to slide $22 billion IVAS contract over to Anduril
16. Pete Hegseth’s intense military-style workout: A peek into the defense secretary’s fitness routine
17. Why The U.S. Army Wants Voice-Controlled Robot Tanks
18. Trump is Right to Prioritize Homeland Missile Defense
19. Trump’s Greenland Gambit Is a Masterclass in Statecraft
20. We Cannot Fix Force Design
21. America First Is Quickly Becoming America Alone
22. From Syria to Africa, Russia’s Strategy is Faltering—But Its Repercussions Will Endure
23. New Blood: Putin is Setting Up Russian Veterans to Take Center Stage in Moscow
24. The Whisperer in the Woods

Korean News Content:

1. S. Korea, U.S. share ‘full consensus’ on complete denuclearization of N. Korea

2. Top security officials of S. Korea, Japan reaffirm trilateral cooperation with U.S.

3. Gov’t to hold ‘export strategy meeting’ next week on new Trump tariffs

4. N. Korea denounces Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza

5. Meta in talks to acquire South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI

6. Editorial: DPK’s exclusionary stance on younger voters threatens democracy

7. N. Korea informed ICAO of plan to cut air traffic control communication with S. Korea

8. Seoul’s nuclear envoy requests China’s constructive role in Korean denuclearization

9. Seoul’s Crisis: A Test of U.S. Resolve in the Indo-Pacific

10. American Woman Admits Participation in ‘North Korea’s $17 Million Illegal Profit’ Job Fraud

11. Medical aid or military strategy? Why Russian troops are being sent to DPRK

12. President Trump: “I know Kim Jong-un better than anyone else”∙∙∙Suggesting to pursue summit diplomacy

13. How Trump’s Gaza plan deepens DPRK distrust and fuels its fears of diplomacy

14. North Korean officials make money through ‘human resources brokering’

15. [Room 39, Lee Jeong-ho’s Eyes] “Orascom, properly hit in the back of the head by North Korea”

16. A Man Who Created the Jucheism’s Last Advice to Democratic Countries: The Current North Korean Policy Could be Adjusted

 

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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