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1/31/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.31.2026 at 06:17pm
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National Security News:

 

1. Trump’s Armada Is Getting in Place. Now He Must Decide What to Do With Iran.
2. The Maduro Operation: Five Insights On Power And International Relations – Analysis
3. Panama High Court Gives Trump a Win Over Canal by Ousting Hong Kong Port Operator
4. Essay | How America First Risks Becoming America Alone
5. U.S. Allies Are Drawing Closer to China, but on Beijing’s Terms
6. China counting how many missiles it needs to win a Taiwan war
7. Is Trump’s foreign policy really realist?
8. China, Russia and Iran are investing billions to influence the US midterms
9. China has spent decades making inroads in Latin America. Will the ‘Donroe doctrine’ push it out?
10. China says Philippines is stoking tensions with Scarborough Shoal drill
11. China & Taiwan Update, January 30, 2026
12.  Politicians Are Calling the Protests in Minnesota an Insurgency
13. The Limits of the China–Russia Strategic Partnership in Military Space Cooperation
14. The meaning of Xi’s military purge
15. Leading the Digital Fight: How the Navy’s IW Community Must Innovate to Win
16. Xi’s control of his regime is looking ever more Stalinist
17. U.S., Taiwan Establish Joint Command for 2027 Defense

Korean News:

1. U.S., Taiwan Establish Joint Command for 2027 Defense
2. What May Be Driving Trump’s Latest Tariff Threat Against South Korea
3. Tariff talks between industry minister, Lutnick conclude without agreement
4. Industry minister says ‘unnecessary misunderstandings’ resolved via tariff talks with U.S.
5. Trump’s Fed pick Warsh serves on board of firm at center of US-Korea trade spat
6. Coupang’s interim chief questioned for 12 hours over data breach probe
7. Editorial: “Extermination of Three Generations, No Choice but to Die”: Neglecting North Korean Prisoners’ Repatriation Is a State Crime
8. Lee Jae Myung Tests South Korea’s Pragmatic Diplomacy Between China and Japan
9. Security expert urges Korea to lead middle-power coalition
10. Hyundai Motor’s humanoid push meets labor wall
11. No more Mr. ‘Very Nice’ Guy? Trump warns that U.S. tariffs could be ‘much steeper.’
12. Assessing North Korea’s Five-Year Effort to Develop 13 New Nuclear and Missile Systems
13. North Korean Cellular Coverage in 2026
14. The Northeast Asian Security Dilemma: Does European Experience Show the Way Out?
15. The America People Once Longed to Live In (A view from Korea)

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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