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2/5/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.05.2025 at 02:39pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Treasury Defends Musk Team’s Access to Federal Payment System
2. With Assist From America, Philippines Is Standing Up to China — but for How Long?
3. Germany vs. Donald Trump? Ambassador’s Memo Sparks Diplomatic Firestorm
4. Terrorism Resilience: Why Killing Their Leaders Doesn’t End the Threat
5. The Global Rise of Conservatism: A New Political Power Shift
6. State Dept. Fires About 60 Contractors Working on Democracy and Human Rights
7. USSOCOM headquarters holds a groundbreaking ceremony for SOF Operations Integration Facility
8. Trump Says U.S. Will Take Over Gaza
9. The CIA Is About to Get a Trump Makeover
10. How Trump Gutted America’s $40 Billion Aid Agency in Two Weeks
11. What Do Trump’s First Weeks Tell Us About His China Strategy?
12. The World Has Changed Since Trump’s First Trade War. Other Countries Are Ready to Fight Back.
13. Assad’s Fall and the Qatari Gas Pipeline: A Risky Bet or Potential Source of Relief?
14. U.S. soft power took decades to build. Trump is dismantling it in weeks.
15. The Boys of DOGE
16. USAID shutoff will hurt US interests around the globe, including Ukraine
17. Donald Trump’s New Tariffs Could Be a Fatal Blow to China’s Economy
18. Collins becomes first post-9/11 vet to be confirmed as VA secretary
19. ‘Infinite Nightmares at Once’: Veterans Data Swept Up in Musk’s Takeover of Treasury System
20. This new Army special ops fitness center is decked out like a pro sports gym
21. The Army’s Special Treatment of Capt. Rebecca Lobach
22. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: How to Make Big Tech Accountable for its Global Influence
23. Trump Needs a Plan on Ukraine’s Buried Treasure
24. Unprepared in the City: Operational Planning for Urban Environments
25. NYPD Confidential: Inside America’s Most Unconventional Counterterror Squad
26. The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis
27. Trump names Washington’s Joe Kent to lead counterterrorism agency
28. Does globalisation have a future? by Joseph S Nye Jr
29. Curtis Fox: Greetings to the SOFREP Community From a Former Green Beret and Your Newest Weekly Columnist
30. China’s Preparations for a ‘Major-Power War’ RADM Mike Studeman (Ret.)

Korean News Content:

1. North Korea, Nuclear Threats & the Fight for a Unification
2. North Korea welcomes Trump back with ‘strategic’ cruise missile test: What’s next?
3. Should South Korea Pursue Nuclear Weapons?
4. Japan Is Getting SM-6 Interceptors to Stop Chinese and North Korean Missiles
5. Unprepared in the City: Operational Planning for Urban Environments
6. Ukraine war latest: Kyiv denies reports that North Korean soldiers have not been seen in Kursk Oblast for weeks
7. U.S. expert estimates N.K. casualty rate in Russia’s war against Ukraine at up to 50 pct
8. 70 pct of experts doubt tangible results even if U.S., N. Korea resume talks: survey
9. Foreign, trade, defense ministries block access to DeepSeek amid data collection concerns
10. A Secret to Longer Marriages in South Korea: Lots of Shows About Divorce
11. Elite N. Korean IT teams infiltrate global freelance platforms
12. N. Korean leadership seminar orders new focus on Kim’s teachings
13. Assembly Speaker Woo reassures China on S. Korea’s political stability, invites Xi to APEC Summit
14. S. Korea, Japan to hold joint lighting event next week for 60th anniv. of diplomatic ties
15. Editorial: South Korea should strengthen ties in U.S.-Japan-South Korea AI alliance
16. Yoon, former defense minister refuse on-site parliamentary hearing over martial law bid
17. Special Envoy Grenell’s diplomatic rampage… Interested in contact with North Korea
18. North Korea leaves South’s territory blank on revised map

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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