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2/19/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.19.2025 at 12:36pm

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National Security News Content:

1. So, About VP Vance’s Speech
2. Cutting Aid Makes the World More Dangerous: Central America 2019 Proved It
3. How Dirty Money From Fentanyl Sales Is Flowing Through China
4. The Sort of Alliance: India and America Keep Getting Closer
5. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 18, 2025
6. Iran Update, February 18, 2025
7. Defense Department firings expected to start soon, officials say
8. Trump wants Greenland and Gaza. That might embolden China on Taiwan.
9. Political lessons for Australia from the war in Ukraine
10. Donald Trump’s Mission: Make America’s Allies Spend More on Defense
11. European Capitals Clash Over Ukraine as Trump Makes Overtures to Putin
12. Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy
13. America’s Long-Range Retaliation
14. China’s Ties with North Korea Are in a Ditch, and Therein Lies Opportunity
15. What Trump’s freeze in federal funding means for the global fight against AIDS
16. How the U.S. Government Controls Ukrainian Media
17. China’s Political Warfare: The Fight for Taiwan on the Information Battlefield
18. Zelensky Decries Peace Talks Without Ukraine, Trump Says He Had His Shot For Years
19. CIA MQ-9 Reapers Are Covertly Spying On Mexican Drug Cartels: Reports
20. Under Trump, CIA plots bigger role in drug cartel fight

Korean News Content:

1. [Exclusive] “Prisoners in the North are defecting, want to go to South Korea” Interview with a North Korean soldier captured in the battlefield
2. Chinese influence in South Korea a focus in Yoon impeachment hearings, analysts say
3. Donald Trump’s Mission: Make America’s Allies Spend More on Defense
4. AI Data Center With Up to 3 Gigawatts of Power Is Envisioned for South Korea
5. The American threat to South Korea’s conservatives
6. 1 of 2 N. Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine voices intent to go to S. Korea: report
7. Pyongyang’s prospects under Trump 2.0
8. N. Korea imports missile parts under guise of civilian trade
9. Discussing withdrawal of North Korean troops in Ukraine war ending talks?
10. 4 officials under Moon get suspended prison terms in N. Korean fishermen deportation case
11. China’s Ties with North Korea Are in a Ditch, and Therein Lies Opportunity
12. Yoon to attend 1st preliminary hearing of his criminal trial
13. South Korea’s Democracy and Martial Law: A New Future Emerging in Crisis
14. ‘I want to defect to South’: North Korean soldier captured in Kursk breaks silence
15. Ukraine broadcasts appeal to North Korean soldiers to surrender
16. S. Korea to provide protection in case captured N. Korean soldiers want to come to South

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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