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12/26/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.26.2025 at 05:48pm
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National Security News:

1. A short review of something you don’t need to read – “Why the US is Losing the Cognitive Competition.”
2. Trump Discloses Christmas Day Strike Against ISIS in Nigeria
3. U.S. Strikes ISIS in Nigeria After Trump Warned of Attacks on Christians
4. Coast Guard Tracks Down Runaway Oil Tanker Linked to Iran and Venezuela
5. China Sanctions Boeing, Other U.S. Companies Over Taiwan Arms Sale
6. China may see full attack as best unification option: Pentagon
7. Container Ship Turned Missile Battery Spotted in China
8. Why has Beijing turned down the heat in the Taiwan Strait in the second half of 2025?
9. Trump’s Inner Circle Sees Russia as an El Dorado for Business, but Pitfalls Abound
10. F3EAD: SOF Specific Targeting in the Intelligence Cycle
11. Trump’s military restraint on Venezuela: power play with eye on China or weakness?
12. Opinion | Hamas Is Loving Its Revival
13. 5 Biggest Military Mistakes Donald Trump Could Make in 2026
14. All hail the Panama Canal, a frontline in the US-China trade war
15. The Geopolitical Logic for Latin American Intervention
16. Japan Accelerates Defense Buildup With Record Budget and Expanded Unmanned Capabilities
17. How China Carved Up Myanmar
18. How to Secure the Sky: America Needs a Defense Against Drones
19.  2026: The mother of all battles by Maria Ressa

Korean News:

1. Action for Korea United chair blasts unification minister’s ‘two-state framework’
2. Advice to Trump on the next steps for engagement with Pyongyang
3. Unification ministry reviewing permitting public access to N. Korea’s newspaper
4.  N. Korea’s Kim calls for expanding missile, shell production capacity
5. Russia, N. Korea developing joint tourism programs: report
6. S. Korean envoy, Russian vice FM hold talks on regional, int’l issues
7. National security adviser reportedly asks U.N. chief to visit N. Korea: sources
8. Ruling party to launch inter-Korean peace strategy committee
9. Defense chief vows to ‘swiftly’ push for project to build nuclear-powered subs
10. Kim Chang-son, close aide of N. Korean leader, dies: KCNA
11. N. Korean border guards borrow soybeans from civilians to pass inspection
12. How an Elusive Banker Allegedly Kept North Korea’s Dirty Money Flowing
13. Ex-top security officials acquitted over alleged cover-up of 2020 border killing by N. Korea
14. Editorial: West Sea Cover-Up Acquittal: Bereaved’s Tears Unanswered
15. South Korean webtoon slammed for heroine resembling Kim Jong-un’s daughter Ju-ae
16. In 2025, K-Pop Battled Its Demons

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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