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1/21/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.21.2025 at 02:47pm

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National Security News Content:

1.  The Inaugural Address January 20, 2025
2. Trump Administration Day 1 Actions and Orders
3. President Trump’s America First Priorities
4. Organization of the National Security Council and Subcommittees
5. Everything Trump said about national security on Day 1
6. Trump Pardons Nearly All 1,500 Jan. 6 Rioters
7. Two Americans Freed by Taliban in Prisoner Swap
8. Hamas Is Effectively Back in Control in Gaza
9. Trump takes credit for defeating ISIS; now he must fight its comeback
10. Trump’s First Day in Office: Signing Orders, Spinning Yarns, Settling Scores
11. The Who’s Who of Trump’s Exclusive Inauguration Ceremony
12.  UC grad who resigned from Marine Corps joining U.S. Dept. of Defense after online controversy (Stuart Scheller)
13. American Exceptionalism Is Back
14. SASC pushes forward Hegseth nomination for defense secretary
15. How Biden’s Bureaucrats are Working to Obstruct Trump’s Next Term
16. Warfare’s New Equation
17. Don’t Listen to Putin: Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive Was a Success
18. Fielding 3D Printing to Enhance the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s Readiness
19. Army experimenting with what the ‘edge’ is for cloud computing capabilities
20. The U.S. Needs Soldiers, Not Warriors
21. No Biden Pardon for Ukraine Impeachment Hoaxer Alexander Vindman
22. Putin Is Not Yet Desperate
23. Ending War Is Hard to Do
24. China Has Raised the Cyber Stakes
25. A New Playbook for Irregular Warfare: How the United States Can Win Without Fighting
26. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 20, 2025
27. Iran Update, January 20, 2025

Korean News Content:

1. Report of Chinese spies rigging election ‘entirely false’: USFK
2. (Trump Inauguration) Trump asks how N.K. leader Kim is doing in talks with U.S. troops in S. Korea
3. Yoon tells court he has lived with ‘belief in liberal democracy’
4. Yoon supporters gather near Constitutional Court in support of impeached president
5. Yoon heads to hospital after impeachment trial for medical treatment
6. S. Korea, U.S. hold regular joint air drills
7. Senate votes to confirm Trump’s pick for secretary of state
8. Trump calls North Korea a ‘nuclear power,’ hours after taking oath of office
9. S. Korea eyes US$300 mln K9 howitzer exports deal with Vietnam
10. (Trump Inauguration) Acting President Choi says to make alliance great again in message to Trump
11. Captured N.K. soldier in Ukraine says didn’t know he would be fighting Ukrainians
12. Defense ministry approves plan to relocate Daegu military airport
13. N. Korean leader’s sister breaks 2-month silence to address ties with Belarus
14. ‘I Only Know South Korea Has Fewer Mountains’ – Testimony From Captured Pyongyang POW
15. S. Korea to hold overseas combined drills in UAE next month
16. Experts: “North Korea’s denuclearization goal and deterrence against North Korea must be maintained”… Some also point out the need for a realistic approach
17. Changing Kim Jong Un’s behavior calls for change in U.S. policy

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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