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3/20/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.20.2026 at 11:31pm
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National Security News:

1. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
2. Taiwan’s All-Hands-on-Deck Plan to Fend Off China
3. U.S. War Planes and Helicopters Kick Off Battle to Reopen Hormuz
4. What U.S. Marines Can Do to Help Reopen the Strait of Hormuz
5. Ukraine Wants to Cash in on Iran’s Drone Threat
6. How the US copied a cheap Iranian kamikaze drone and used it to bomb Iran
7. Seven U.S. allies back potential Strait of Hormuz coalition
8. A Contest of Wills: China and the Quad
9. Chinese Eyes, Iranian Missiles: Intelligence Cooperation in the US/Israel–Iran War 2026
10. Self-Defense Without Consent: Selective Sovereignty in the Law of War
11. The Weight of War and Reclaiming Combat Agility
12. What constitutes victory in an ‘asymmetric’ war with Iran?
13. Opinion | The U.S. Ammo Shortage Is Worse Than You Think

Korean News:

1. Kim Jong Un’s hidden luxury wardrobe
2. Calls grow for Korea strategic fleet amid Hormuz risks
3. AI ‘fake applicant’ case raises North Korea job scam fears
4. N. Korea’s Kim oversees combined drill involving new main battle tanks
5. S. Korea in talks with U.S., partners on multiple fronts over its role in Strait of Hormuz: Cheong Wa Dae
6. S. Korea joins 7 countries in leaders’ statement on Strait of Hormuz
7. US-South Korea Bilateral Trade Relations – Analysis
8. Editorial: South Korea’s Belated Hormuz Strait Condemnation
9. BTS Is Back. But the K-Pop Landscape Has Changed.
10. North Korean youth stands his ground after arrest for listening to South Korean music

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 the Editor-at-Large of Small Wars Journal.

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