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2/22/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.22.2025 at 07:08pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Trump Fires Top Pentagon Officers in Sweeping Overhaul

2. Dan Caine, Trump’s Joint Chiefs Pick, Had Unusual Path to Top Ranks

3. White House and Ukraine Close In on Deal for Mineral Rights

4. Washington’s Embrace of Putin Aims to Drive Wedge Between Moscow and Beijing

5. See How Xi and Putin Are Ramping Up Joint Military Drills

6. DoD Probationary Workforce Statement

7. Pentagon to fire 5,400 civilian employees in ‘initial’ purge

8. New ‘irregular triad’ gaining currency as operational concept to improve deterrence

9. There’s a story in each shard of the shattered USAID

10. Trump urges Musk to be ‘more aggressive’ in bid to shrink US government

11. Russia Wants to Erase Ukraine’s Future—and Its Past

12. Connecticut Asks Congress to ‘Rethink the Jones Act’

13. Warfare at the Speed of Thought: Balancing AI and Critical Thinking for the Military Leaders of Tomorrow

14. Donald Trump’s Russia Gamble: Could It Work?

15. 5 Key Lessons from Three Years of the Ukraine War

16. Confirm Elbridge Colby Right Now

17. Why No One Is Winning in Ukraine

18. China’s Self-Defeating Strategy

19. Socom Laser-Focused on Winning, Readiness, Modernization

20. In Purge, Trump Fires Brown, Slife, Franchetti, and More

21. Lake says VOA won’t be ‘Trump TV’

Korean News Content:

1. N. Koreans’ high casualties in Ukraine blamed on inexperience

2. Lake says VOA won’t be ‘Trump TV’

3. S Korea’s new missile both bunker buster and nuclear hedge

4. Ukraine official says sending of N.K. POWs to S. Korea ‘possible’

5. See How Xi and Putin Are Ramping Up Joint Military Drills

6. N. Korea threatens to use ‘strategic means’ in response to S. Korea-U.S. air drills

7. Grenell says ‘Trump can show up with Kim Jong-un’

8. Trump inks memo to facilitate allies’ investment, restrict China from investing in strategic sectors

9. N. Korea seen using ChatGPT in AI education

10. OpenAI says it banned accounts potentially linked to N. Korea over deceptive employment scheme

11. Chey Tae-won visits U.S. and says S. Korea has invested 230 trillion won in U.S., emphasizing partnership

12. Cyber crooks STEAL £1.19bn in biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft – as North Korean hackers ‘behind heist’

13. Party approval ratings fluctuate after martial law

14. Rallies held nationwide for, against Yoon’s impeachment ahead of final hearing

15. Trump seen tapping into allies’ security concerns over geographic proximity to conflict zones

16. N. Korea designated ‘high-risk jurisdiction’ for money laundering, terrorism financing for 15th year

 

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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