1/12/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
01.12.2026 at 03:58pm
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National Security News:
1. U.S. Steps Up Planning for Possible Action in Iran
2. Weakened by War, Iran’s Regime Faces Its Toughest Challenge Yet
3. Russia’s Fearsome Arsenal Fizzled in Venezuela. Here’s Why.
4. The Perception War over Venezuela
5. China Has Been Gorging on Black-Market Oil. That’s Now Getting Harder.
6. Trump ‘Inclined’ to Keep Exxon Out of Venezuela
7. Washington’s New Lobbyists: Paid Online Influencers With Few Rules
8. The Chinese Company Taking On the World’s Memory-Chip Giants
9. As Trump threatens Iran strikes, China denounces use of force in Middle East
10. Could China execute a special forces operation like the US precision Maduro abduction?
11. Special Operations News – Jan 12, 2025
12. Opinion | Forget Venezuela and Greenland – here is the real trillion-dollar question
13. From Steam to Sats: Energy and Bitcoin Strategy to Win the 21st Century
14. Once More, the Sensor (FICINT)
15. No Bench, No Game: Reconstituting Special Operations Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Depth from the Reserve
16. The Problem with Trump’s Venezuela Plan By Elliott Abrams
17. Donald Trump’s Red Line
18. Venezuelan and Cuban Military: A Comparative Analysis and Potential U.S. Operation in Cuba
19. Cognitive Warfare and the Indo-Pacific
20. Why the U.S. Navy Doesn’t Build Battleships Anymore
21. Neither America Nor China Can Achieve True Tech Dominance
22. How Greenland Falls: Imagining a Bloodless Trump Takeover
Korean News:
1. Lee stresses ties with Japan as vital as China, urges dialogue to ease tensions
2. Police, military launch joint probe into N. Korea’s claim of drone incursion
3. North Korea: the elephant in the room when Xi met Lee in Beijing
4. War of words: How to evaluate North Korean claims of another ROK drone incursion
5. North Korea slams US plan to present report on DPRK sanctions violations at UN
6. Defense chief says willing to propose inter-Korean probe over drone incursion claim
7. N. Korea drums up renewable energy use amid sanctions-caused electricity shortage
8. S. Korea, U.S. conduct security training after Osan Air Base gate access update
9. 7 Chinese, US nationals charged with smuggling weapons to North Korea
10. North Korea builds 2nd private car dealership, gaming center in elite district
11. Ex-PPP lawmaker Ihn Yohan calls martial law bid by ex-President Yoon ‘humiliating’
12. North Korean workers walk out on Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s speech demanding more sacrifice
13. North Korea cracks down on tutoring boom as schools prioritize labor over learning
14. Civilian drones raise questions over border surveillance
15. N. Korea unlikely to respond to request for joint probe into drone incident
