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1/30/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.30.2026 at 03:21pm
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National Security News:

1. Experts have questions about the new National Defense Strategy—on China, force design, and more
2. What the Indo-Pacific thinks of the new US National Defense Strategy
3. Opinion | Why the U.S. Needs Diego Garcia
4. Do Americans think China will overtake the US? The results of a survey are in
5. The Role of Foreign Fighters in a Taiwan Resistance Scenario
6. Cognitive Warfare Is Cheap—and That’s the Problem
7. Critical Followership, Cognitive Delay, and a Quantum Probability-Based Account of Trust
8. Senate bills remind Trump that Taiwan remains a priority before key Xi meeting in April
9. Xi Jinping is immensely powerful. Why can’t he stamp out corruption?
10. Opinion | Trump’s power politics is paving the way to a G2 world order with China
11. Stop panicking about AI. Start preparing
12. 2026 SOCOM Ignite Program
13. Japan Can’t Go It Alone: Tokyo Has Stepped Up on China—Now It’s Washington’s Turn
14. The Unsettling Implications of Xi’s Military Purge
15. The World Will Come to Miss Western Hypocrisy – An Overtly Transactional Order Spells Trouble for Everyone
16. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
17. Pentagon’s new ‘non-kinetic effects cell’ bolsters Gen. Caine’s goal to better integrate cyber into U.S. military operations
18. Data Defeat: What if the Army’s New Command-and-Control Tools Overwhelm Company Commanders at the Tactical Edge?
19. Trump declares national emergency over Cuba, threatens tariffs on nations that supply oil to communist regime

Korean News:

1. N. Korea’s Kim attends ceremony for this year’s 1st regional development project
2. N. Korean ruling party’s central committee elects delegates to upcoming congress
3. ROK, Japan defense chiefs back ‘denuclearization of Korean Peninsula’
4. Hanwha Aerospace signs US$1.9 bln contract to supply Norway with Chunmoo rocket systems
5. S. Korean nanosatellite establishes contact after successful launch
6. Hyundai Steel net profit plunges 84 pct in 2025 on construction downturn, protectionism
7. Exclusive: Army Launches Experimental Drone Unit Amid Drone Command Dissolution
8. Kim Jong Un kicks off 3rd year of rural project with focus on military towns
9. Why the U.S. and South Korea Will Not Jointly Construct Nuclear Submarines
10. Why Seoul’s push for greater control over the DMZ is unlikely to succeed
11. ＜Inside N.Korea＞Armored Vehicles Deployed: Police Conduct Lockdown Drills in Preparation for Unrest — “Sirens Create Strong Sense of Intimidation” in Hyesan
12. Transparency or unrefined messages? President’s social media use stirs debate

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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