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12/27/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.27.2024 at 03:46pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers
2. Azerbaijan observes day of mourning for air crash victims as speculation mounts about its cause
3. Everything We Know About What Led Up To The Azerbaijan Airliner Crash
4. Anti-Drone Weapon With 24 Barrels Firing Buckshot-Like Rounds Emerges On Russian Buggies
5. This Army unit is the first to field new company and battalion drones
6. Ukraine’s military intelligence says North Korean troops are suffering heavy battlefield losses
7. Russia arrests 4 suspects accused of plotting to kill top military officers on Ukraine’s orders
8. Russia is intensifying its air war in Ukraine. A secretive factory is ramping up drone production to fuel the offensive
9. Military support to detention and deportation would harm readiness
10. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 26, 2024
11. Iran Update, December 26, 2024
12. Russia has a history of downing passenger planes — and covering it up
13. United Front: China’s ‘magic weapon’ caught in a spy controversy
14. Finland boards oil tanker suspected of causing internet, power cable outages
15. How Tariffs Can Help America
16. The Real Stakes of the AI Race
17. Special Forces soldier dies in non-combat incident at Eglin range
18. ‘The Dark Path’ Review: Rivalry and the Roar of Guns

Korean News Content:

1. South Korea Impeaches Acting President, Prolonging Political Upheaval
2. Nat’l Assembly votes to impeach acting President Han
3. Acting President Choi Sang-mok vows to prioritize stabilizing state affairs
4. Foreign ministry holds phone talks with U.S., Japanese, Chinese envoys after impeachment
5. Acting President Han says respects Nat’l Assembly’s impeachment decision
6. State Department: “Aware of Significant North Korean Casualties”∙∙∙Experts: “Due to Lack of Training, Lack of Communication”
7. N.K. soldier captured by Ukraine dies from worsening wounds: S. Korea’s spy agency
8. US Congress fails to extend North Korean Human Rights Act
9. U.S. Senate Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Lee Shi-Wicker Nominated… Calls for Nuclear Redeployment in Indo-Pacific Region
10. Deadlocked politics over successive impeachments fuel concerns over prolonging of economic instability, FX woes
11. Beijing and Pyongyang will exploit South Korea’s turmoil
12. Frontline report: Ukrainian forces decimate column of outnumbered North Korean soldiers in Kursk forest
13. South Korea’s leadership crisis in hands of Constitutional Court
14. How the Impeachment of South Korea’s President Will Continue
15. A night of chaos: Inside South Korea’s six hours of martial law
16. After South Korean president’s impeachment, acting president suffers same fate

About The Author

  • David Maxwell

    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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