2/13/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
02.13.2026 at 05:13pm
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National Security News:
1. Exclusive | U.S. Smuggled Thousands of Starlink Terminals Into Iran After Protest Crackdown
2. Men lie, strategies lie—numbers don’t
3. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
4. VOA and 2026 Congressional Funding
5. U.S. Is Sending Its Largest Warship to the Middle East
6. Starlink Shutdown Blunts Russia’s Newest Battlefield Advantage
7. Ukrainian forces say Russian troops paid them for a fake Starlink service that instead revealed battlefield locations
8. Western countries see World War III coming
9. CIA Seeks to Recruit Spies Out of China’s Military Turmoil
10. Is Help Still on the Way for Iranian Protesters?
11. Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters
12. Germany Prepares to Authorize Offensive Cyber Operations Amid Russian Hybrid Threats
13. Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance and the Renewal of Irregular Warfare
14. Strategic Sabotage: Special Operations Forces Core Mission?
15. The Dispersion Paradox: When Sound Tactics Become a Death Sentence
16. Will These Four Defense Innovation Reforms Improve Industry’s Lot?
17. Running to Stand Still: Russian Nuclear Modernization after New START
18. Our Network Can’t Be the First Obstacle in the Fight
19. The AI Trilemma: How to Regulate a Revolutionary Technology
20. Iran’s Divided Opposition: Only a Unified Movement Can Threaten the Regime
21. Echoes of the America Between the Wars
22. Growing US Vulnerability Under Trump: Chinese and Russian Perceptions
23. Top enlisted leaders say they see no issue with women in combat arms meeting standards
24. Throwback Thursday: An Encounter with History (Special Warfare)
Korean News:
1. The convenient return of the Kim Ju-ae succession narrative
2. Men lie, strategies lie—numbers don’t
3. VOA and 2026 Congressional Funding
4. Kim’s Young Daughter Looks More Likely to Be North Korea’s Next Leader
5. American missionary-turned-human rights activist vows to raise voice for NK
6. North Korea Warns of ‘Terrible Response’ to More Drone Incidents
7. Families of wartime abductees seek grave visits in North
8. North Korean defectors gather for Lunar New Year amid separation
9. The Promise and Perils of Korean Reunification
10. Defense ministry relieves Navy chief from duty over alleged martial law involvement
11. Hype over Kim Jong Un naming his daughter as heir runs ahead of the facts
12. North Korean diplomats actively spying on close allies China, Russia: Estonia
13. N.K. leader’s sister calls Seoul’s regret over drone incursion ‘sensible’
14. Cheong Wa Dae expresses hopes of restoring trust with N. Korea following Pyongyang’s statement
15. Bessent says ‘we’ll see’ if scope of steel, aluminum tariffs narrows
16. FM Cho visits main U.S. military base in S. Korea
