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2/3/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.03.2026 at 02:52pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Taiwan Doubles Down on U.S. Partnership, Even as America’s Alliances Fray
2. China’s Disappearing Generals
3. North America’s top computer vision scientist Liang Jie returns to China
4. ‘Kill chains’ are the future of war. Humans may not be
5. An internal document shows the Vietnamese military preparing for a possible American war
6. Rubio And The Future Of American Diplomacy – OpEd
7. Trump Administration to Create $12 Billion Rare-Earth Stockpile to Counter China
8. Taiwan’s Rare Earths Security Challenge
9. China eyes reshaping global order as US influence wanes
10. Opinion | The ‘Deal’ in Iran Is Regime Change
11. It’s Time to Play Foreign Policy Hardball
12. Beyond Deterrence: How China Turned Taiwan Into a Governance Testbed
13. Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to Start One
14. The Predatory Hegemon: How Trump Wields American Power
15. Google Is Spending Big to Build a Lead in the AI Energy Race
16. Social Media Manipulation for Sale: 2025 NATO Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement
17. Small Wars in the Strategic Transition: U.S. Hemispheric Assertiveness and the Global Gray Zone
18. How the United States Lost a Nuclear Device and Recovered an Indian Friend
19. Schrödinger’s Security Partner: The Paradox of Measuring Security Force Assistance
20. The S-500 Factor: India’s Missile Defence Ambitions and the New Asian Security Dilemma

Korean News:

1. North Korea’s psychological operations target the South
2. Alliance partners: With cultural understanding comes mutual respect
3. The End Of The Miracle That Is South Korea
4. Korea Reunification Isn’t Coming—And Great-Power Politics Is Why
5. [Column] How North Korea’s upcoming party congress could change history
6. North Korea rehearses parade as party congress nears, report says
7. Contemporary warfare in Ukraine: Is Seoul asleep at the wheel?
8. S. Korean missionary arrested in Russia
9. N. Korea’s Kim calls for ‘epochal progress’ in rural areas ahead of key party congress
10. Kim Jong Un admits to ‘empty’ promises on rural development, vows change
11. Medvedev says Russia can learn from North Korea’s success under sanctions
12. Epstein was ‘very’ interested in North Korea business prospects, emails show

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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