1/13/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
01.13.2026 at 04:17pm
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National Security News:
1. Trump Explores Diplomacy With Iran While Weighing Strikes, Officials Say
2. Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos From Going Global
3. Deposed Shah’s Son Seeks Center Stage Amid Iran Protests
4. U.S. Tries a New Playbook: Regime Management, Not Regime Change
5. Military Experts Reject Trump’s Logic That U.S. Must Own Greenland to Defend It
6. The Iranian Regime Could Fall: But a U.S. Strike Would Prop It Up
7. How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
8. Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Department of War
9. The Battle Over Who Runs the Panama Canal Ports Is About to Be Decided
10. Beyond Lethality: The Primacy of Influence in Cognitive Warfare
11. War, Warfare, and Domains: Why Cognitive Warfare Is Hard to Place
12. Everything Is Governance: Why the Real Contest With China Is Systemic, Not Economic
13. Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome
14. China Sucks. Even Their Propaganda Makes America Look Awesome.
15. A Green Beret Went on a Shooting Rampage. Is the Army at Fault?
16. U.S. Citizens Are Joining the Military to Protect Undocumented Parents
17. Why China Is Suddenly Obsessed With American Poverty
18. Lightning Lab gives Pacific Army division drone-building capabilities on the front lines
19. A La Carte Feminism: The Limits of NATO’s WPS Commitments in a Time of Crisis
20. How is India Integrating Drones in its War-Fighting?
21. After Maduro: Trump’s Managed Authoritarianism Trap in Venezuela
Korean News:
1. The ‘Land Reclamation Storm Brigade’ and its failures
2. N. Korean leader’s sister demands apology for drone incursion
3. Seoul views Pyongyang as leaving room for communication over drone incursions claim
4. How anyone can now read North Korea’s party newspaper at a library in Seoul
5. US, partners brief UN on growing threat of North Korean cybercrime
6. Lee emphasizes need for 3-way cooperation with Tokyo, Beijing in summit with Takaichi
7. North’s hackers using QR codes to bypass smartphone safety features, says South’s internet security agency
8. Foreign ministry examines contingency plans for S. Korean nat’ls in Iran
9. North Korea Replaces Security Chiefs for Kim Jong-un
10. South Korea weighs restoring inter-Korean military pact
11. N. Korea slams UNSC meeting on Russia’s strike on Ukraine
12. North Korean military couriers dishonorably discharged for smuggling merchants’ cargo
13. Pyongyang targets workplace absenteeism scheme that keeps workers and officials afloat
14. How Was North Korea’s New 2025 Agricultural Policy? (3) Is Kim Jong-un Regime’s ‘Food Monopoly’ Nearly Complete? State strictly controls farm production
15. AI’s ‘need for speed’ must not undermine K-culture’s roots
