2/10/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
02.10.2026 at 02:47pm
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National Security News:
1. Exclusive | Pentagon Warns Major Defense Contractors It Is Reviewing Their Performance
2. Opinion | The Political Battle for AI in Space
3. CIA Looks to Speed Up Access to New Tech In Race Against China
4. Pentagon needs more time to finalize defense firms on naughty list
5. AI ‘fundamentally changing’ adversary behavior, leading to force generation reforms: Official
6. ‘Mission ahead, heavens above’ (Useful Fiction)
7. Cyber Arms Race: Weaponized Artificial Intelligence Expected to Redefine Conflict
8. Is Japan Back?
9. Sanae Takaichi’s victory is a win for Indo-Pacific security
10. Poland’s mass-army turn is reshaping NATO’s eastern flank
11. Offsetting Without Oversight: The Wrong War with China
12. Pentagon adding ChatGPT to its enterprise generative AI platform
13. Marine Warfighting Lab at Quantico Gets $10 Million Boost: ‘Top Priority’
14. Airpower + Cyber Power: Is Caracas a New Strategic Model
15. China to support ‘reunification forces’ in Taiwan, go after ‘separatists’
16. US containerized drone swarms no silver bullet vs China
17. Ascend the Cognitive Hierarchy—Don’t Waste Time in the Data Layer
18. Drone Warfare in Ukraine: Myths and Reality
19. Northern Approaches: Finland, Sweden, and the Growing Opportunities for Allied Irregular Warfare
20. Does Guaranteeing Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge Still Serve U.S. Interests?
21. Natan Sharansky: Jimmy Lai’s Sentence Tests the Free World
Korean News:
1. The politics of naming north Korean escapees
2. Cho says U.S. security talks team to visit South Korea in February
3. Kim Jong Un urges expanded military role, avoids U.S., S. Korea rhetoric
4. Japan shifts focus from history to security in ties with S. Korea
5. Ukraine holds key as North Korean POW issue enters diplomatic gray zone
6. Trump Responds to North Korean Soldier Protection Request
7. Spy agency, military intelligence unit raided over alleged drone flights to N. Korea
8. Unification ministry calls Seoul’s 2016 suspension of inter-Korean factory zone ‘self-injurious’
9. A Bitcoin Blunder for the Ages: $40 Billion Accidentally Given Away
10. Korean Travel App Aims for 2027 IPO as Tourists Flock to Seoul for Skin Care, K-Pop
11. Seoul is reviewing its sanctions on trade with North Korea: Unification minister
12. North Korean skyscraper project appears set to open before Party Congress
13. Joint probe finds 33.6 mln accounts exposed in Coupang data breach, dwarfing initial claim
14. Cheong Wa Dae says no change in stance of developing future-oriented ties with Japan
15. Russian military jet makes brief trip to North Korea for first time this year
