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2/8/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.08.2026 at 07:39pm
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National Security News:

1. Andrii Turchyn, Colonel, Commander of the 25th Separate Sicheslav Airborne Brigade
2. ‘Playing with fire’: Taiwan defense spending battle rattles China hawks
3. Fake News, A.I. Deepfakes, and the Pageant of the Unreal
4. The U.S. Navy’s New Insurance Policy for War With China Is an Australian Base
5.  Iran Threatens Missile Attacks, Hoping Trump Sees Strength Not Weakness
6. Hunt For Container Launchers Packed With Drones Kicked-Off By Pentagon
7. Rushing to Failure with Current Peace Talks? The Big Five, 8 February edition
8. Trump turns to US military leaders for diplomatic efforts on Iran and Ukraine
9. The US Army’s quiet rotation in the Philippines
10. A social network for AI agents is full of introspection—and threats
11. State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
12. Anthropic cofounder says studying the humanities will be ‘more important than ever’ and reveals what the AI company looks for when hiring
13. The 8 Great Powers That Will Shape Global Politics for Decades
14. China Is Going All-In to Beat the U.S. on Humanoid Robots
15. Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Foreign Call About Person Close to Trump
16. Comply or Die: A Marine Reckons With the New American Doctrine
17. Japan’s Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election
18. Chinese Open-Source AI Ecosystem Surpasses U.S. in Global Dominance

Korean News:

1. Female general becomes 1st deputy commanding general for S. Korea at Korea-U.S. Combined Division
2. N. Korea to convene key party congress in late February
3. Japan’s Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election
4.  Chinese Open-Source AI Ecosystem Surpasses U.S. in Global Dominance
5. N. Korea holds own winter games after missing Milan Olympics.
6. Falling exchange rates pull down North Korean market prices
7. Skipping New Year message, Kim Jong-un signals urgency in managing ties with Trump
8. Korean diplomats struggle to keep ahead of shifting winds in Washington
9. Coupang subpoena risks broader Korea-US trade clash
10.  PM meets with presidential chief of staff, ruling party chief over U.S. tariffs
11. Why Korea must learn the new Trump trade playbook
12. How a UK study became center of S. Korea’s political debate
13. North Korea executed schoolchildren for watching ‘Squid Game’

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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