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2/20/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.20.2025 at 12:40pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Trump Tilts Toward a Ukraine Sellout
2. Trump’s attack on Zelensky stirs fear of major U.S. shift on Russia
3. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 19, 2025
4. Iran Update, February 19, 2025
5. Trump’s Attack on Zelensky Signals New World Order Taking Shape
6. China Uses US Chaos to Reset European Ties
7. Making Trump’s Middle East ‘deal’ a reality
8. Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Draw Up Plans for Cuts
9. Pentagon orders budget revamp to reinvest $50 billion into Trump defense priorities
10. The American Who Went Undercover in Ukraine—for Moscow
11. What We Mean When We Call Something an Intelligence Failure
12. The Strategic Use of Plausible Deniability in Proxy Wars Azerbaijan’s Proxy War (1988–1994)
13. The Guardian view on Trump’s diplomacy: when the US knows the price and ignores values
14. Why We’re Obsessed with JFK Conspiracies
15. ‘Unsafe and irresponsible’: US weighs in on China-Philippines aerial encounter over shoal
16. Race for AI supremacy: Chinese-born scientists in Musk’s Grok squad line up against China
17. The Real China Trump Card
18. The US must reform an arms sales process that invites dawdling
19. The New Meaning of ‘Munich’
20. Still not confident enough: China isn’t likely to move on Taiwan in 2025

Korean News Content:

1. South Korean Tycoon Calls for His Country To Go Nuclear
2. U.S. can respond in ‘overwhelming’ way in case of N.K. ICBM attack: official
3. N. Korea slams U.S. for using AUKUS to bolster ‘nuclear alliance’ in Asia-Pacific
4. U.S. lawmakers visit Hanwha Philly Shipyard, spotlight U.S.-South Korea shipbuilding cooperation
5. South Korea to launch AI dream team to build homegrown ChatGPT
6. S. Korea, U.S. stage joint air drills involving B-1B bomber
7. Impeached PM says Cabinet members tried to stop Yoon’s martial law bid
8. S. Korea allocates 6.5 tln won for ODA in 2025 amid heightened global uncertainties
9. N. Korea grapples with internal pushback over Russian alliance
10. South Korea willing to accept North Korean prisoners of war from Ukraine
11. North Korea expert shares untold stories of Kim Jong-un in new book
12. South Korea slams North’s ‘inhumane’ troop deployment to Russia after newspaper interviews POWs
13. Ukrainian military: “First North Korean self-propelled artillery destroyed using drone”
14. Salmon Report: “North Korean POWs Should Not Be Repatriated”

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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