2/28/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
03.01.2026 at 12:53am
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National Security News:
1. Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say
2. Opinion | Trump Enforces His Red Line on Iran
3. Opinion | The Ayatollah Is Choosing War (published prior to the launch of Epic Fury)
4. A Timeline of U.S. and Iran Relations, From Allies to Enemies
5.Trump Rolls the Dice on Regime Change With a Massive Attack on Iran
6. Attack on Iran: Israel Confident Khamenei Is Dead — Live Updates
Now let’s not be distracted from the rest of the world’s strategic challenges.
7. Spotlight on Admiral Samuel J Paparo, the man who could call the shots in any future US-China conflict
8. Weekend Interview: Cleo Paskal on China’s Corruption-Driven Push into the Pacific
9. Chinese Online Influence Operation Spreads Anti-American Conspiracy Claims
10. The Pentagon Can’t Afford This A.I. Fight
11. Radio Free Asia resumes broadcasts to China after Trump cuts forced near closure
12. Republicans Press Trump to Kill U.K. Plan For Diego Garcia Military Base
13. Iranian sleeper agents have infiltrated the US. Now ex-FBI boss warns of imminent terror attacks on American soil
14. Pentagon approves OpenAI safety red lines after dumping Anthropic
15. An Iranian Network Is Ready to Act
16. The Failed Armed Expedition to Topple Cuba’s Regime
17. China Wins the Pentagon-Anthropic Brawl
18. Rebuilding Western Rare Earth Processing Power
19. America’s new unipolar moment
20. Taiwan, the Long Game Not Invasion
21. Three Massive Questions Concerning Trump’s War in Iran
Korean News:
1. Between the Fortress and the Cage: Watching Tehran, Thinking of Pyongyang
2. What Images of Kim Jong Un’s Daughter at Military Parade Tell Us About Her Rise
3. Why ‘twin look’ of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, daughter sparks succession talk
4. North Korean leader presents new sniper rifles to party officials
5. Kim Jong Un’s Ninth Party Congress Personnel Shakeup
6. Kim’s daughter is a princess – but not necessarily crown princess
7. [Editorial] Kim declares South no longer ‘fellow countrymen’; is Seoul’s outreach still viable?
8. Expert Takes on North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress – 38 North
9. 29 photos show North Korea wrapping up Party Congress with extravagant parade
10. Why an American once detained in North Korea wants to broadcast into the country
11. N.K. leader’s sister confirmed to serve as director of ruling party’s general affairs department
12. What we didn’t see at the Party Congress, from Kim Jong Un’s child to nuke power
13. N. Korea’s Kim uses party congress to consolidate his long-term grip on power: Seoul
14. USFK Commander Criticizes South Korea’s Defense Ministry
15. Korea’s March First Movement: A nation stands
