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1/19/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.19.2026 at 06:07pm
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National Security News:

  1. The Relevant Discourse from Small Wars Journal
  2. In Trump’s Drive for Greenland, NATO Is the First Casualty
  3. Opinion | The Greenland War of 2026
  4. Trump’s Dangerous Greenland Game
  5. Can a U.S.-Greenland Partnership Work? Just Look at These Pacific Islands
  6. Commentary: China’s foreign policy calculus goes beyond the current White House occupant
  7. Cherry-picking influence: Why China is cautious about filling gaps left by US global retreat
  8. Taiwan says Chinese drone made ‘provocative’ flight over South China Sea island
  9. Taiwan’s Response to “Justice Mission-2025”
  10. China’s Global Fishing Offensive | U.S. House Select Committee on China
  11. How Iran’s regime retook the streets
  12. GenAI.mil – Making the Best of Us Better and the Worst of Us Worse
  13. Power Without Illusion: Global Signals from the U.S. Operation in Venezuela
  14. The Brotherhood, Turkey, and the Future of U.S. Counterterrorism Policy
  15. Opinion | Gaza’s ‘Phase Two’ Peace Trusts Hamas
  16. International Criminal Liability and U.S. Boat Attacks in the Pacific and Caribbean
  17. Own the Night or Die
  18. Why the Tech World Thinks the American Dream Is Dying
  19. Living Dr. King’s Example in Dangerous Times

Korean News:

  1. N. Korea calls S. Korea ‘No. 1 hostile country’ at indoctrination center
  2. N. Korea-linked hacking group exploits Naver, Google ads to spread malware: report
  3. North Korea, Russia speed up work on border bridge ahead of June deadline
  4. Defense chief says peace, dialogue should be based on ‘overwhelming power’
  5. Military looks into new allegations of intelligence unit’s role in drone incursion
  6. South Korean man claims he sent drones to North, prompting calls for probe
  7. South Korea Lacks True Leaders
  8. Marine Corps to push for swift transfer of operational control from Army
  9. Seoul eyes joint UNESCO bid with Pyongyang to list taekwondo as shared heritage
  10. Criminal ring nabbed for alleged laundering of 150 bln won of cryptocurrency
  11. U.S. beef, pork rank 1st in S. Korea’s imported meat market in 2025: data
  12. RFA to resume operations in South Korea, paving way for broadcasts to North
  13. Kim Jong Un urges youth to abandon ‘dreams’ to go to war, hard labor sites
  14. Politics should not dictate scale of South Korea-US joint drills: think tank

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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