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2/23/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.23.2025 at 04:53pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Debt Has Always Been the Ruin of Great Powers. Is the U.S. Next?
2. European Leaders Draft Peacekeeping Plan for Ukraine With U.S. Forces as ‘Backstop’
3. How a U.S. President Pivoted Toward Russia
4. Trump’s Ukraine Shift Unsettles U.S. Allies in Asia
5. Putin is Unlikely to Demobilize in the Event of a Ceasefire Because He is Afraid of His Veterans
6. Speakers at SOF conference tiptoe around Trump on Ukraine, allies
7. In Pursuit of a ‘Warrior Ethos,’ Hegseth Targets Military’s Top Lawyers
8. Pentagon fast-tracks ‘Cyber Command 2.0’ review, requests authorities wish list
9. ‘Why Taiwan Matters’ and ‘The Boiling Moat’: Danger Island
10. George Floyd Killing Separated Trump From His Generals
11. As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies
12. The New Administration and China, with Dean Cheng – on Midrats
13. India to counter China’s military might in South China Sea by arming Beijing’s rivals with…
14. The future of bureaucracy in the age of AI (A view form South Korea)
15. A look at Dan ‘Razin’ Caine, Trump’s pick to be the top US military officer

Korean News Content:

1. Trump’s Ukraine Shift Unsettles U.S. Allies in Asia
2. South Korean lawmaker heads to Ukraine to study North Korean involvement in war
3. N. Korea threatens to use ‘strategic means’ in response to S. Korea-U.S. air drills
4. Top diplomat discusses bilateral, security issues with counterparts at G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
5. Industry minister to visit U.S. as early as this week for talks on new tariff scheme
6. Korean biz lobby chief says more U.S. investment could be considered on incentives
7. The future of bureaucracy in the age of AI (A view from South Korea)
8. “I never saw a proclamation with president’s signature,” says former JCS martial law chief
9. IAEA chief calls for engagement with North Korea amid nuclear arsenal concerns
10. [Washington Talk] “China’s Nuclear Power Reinforcement is Critical to Korea’s National Interests… US Considers Redeployment of Tactical Nuclear Weapons”
11. Exclusive: North Korea testing larger new recon drone, pushing deployment plan
12. North Korea confiscates dog fur-lined coats from civilians to clothe soldiers
13. Ukrainian ‘witch drone’ threatens to destroy 200 North Korean ‘ju-jae-guns’

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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