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12/31/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.31.2025 at 11:47pm
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National Security News:

1. Iran Vows to Address Economic Problems as Protests Enter Fourth Day
2. Russia Doubles Down on Allegations Ukraine Targeted Putin Residence
3. Five Takeaways From China’s Military Drills Around Taiwan
4. Trump’s Latest Venezuela Tactic: Revealing a Secret Strike to World
5. Venezuela Detains Americans Amid Growing U.S. Pressure
6. The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership
7. China drills feed info war targeting faith in Taiwan’s defenses
8. Assessing “Cognitive Warfare”
9. Ukraine Now Has Europe’s Biggest Military. What Happens to It When the War Ends?
10. The Blogs: When Money Collapses So Does Consent: Iran’s Currency Crisis and Bazaar Behavior
11. Iran on the brink? Key information about the protests
12. Deterrence by Disruption
13. Afghanistan, A History Already Forgotten: Counterinsurgency Lessons U.S. Senior Military Leaders Must Not Ignore
14. ‘We’ve Metastasized Russia’s Military,’ Say Ukrainian Partisans
15. A Middle Way for American Foreign Policy

 

Korean News:

1. N. Korea set to mark New Year with outdoor celebrations, firework display
2. Russian official exchanges New Year’s gifts with N.K. leader’s sister
3. S. Korea begins permitting easy public access to N. Korea’s main newspaper
4. Previewing North Korea’s Grand Strategy for 2026
5. Survey: Germans with reunification experience back Korean unification
6. S. Korean military to offer drone operation training to all conscripts next year
7. Marine Corps Regains 1st, 2nd Division Control After 50 Years
8.South Korea’s Defense Firms Pioneer AI Combat, UAV Tech
9. N. Korea amplifies military narrative
10.  Korean War (1950 – 1953) (Maps and Video)
11. Hanwha Systems wins 40 bln-won combat system supply deal from Philippine Navy
12. Lee hopes White House golden key deepens Seoul-Washington ties
13. U.S. voices ‘significant concerns’ over S. Korea’s network act revision

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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