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3/22/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.22.2026 at 06:55pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. A brave Marine colonel took on the Pentagon — and paid the price for it
2. Ukrainian Air Defense Expertise: A Global Commodity
3. Opinion | An air power expert explains why Iran is more powerful now than before the war
4. ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE: First Army To Use Exoskeletons In Combat Operations
5. US intel doubts China will invade Taiwan in 2027
6. Trump-Xi summit on hold until Iran conflict ends, people briefed say
7. Trump is showing Beijing how to seize Taiwan
8. Could Taiwan’s military continue to fight after an Iran-like decapitation?
9. Taiwan concerned by depletion of US missile stocks during Iran war
10. Taiwan rated second freest country in Asia by Freedom House
11. Elon Musk Says China Will Win The AI Race, But Here’s Where SpaceX Will Win
12. Taiwan thanks US ambassador to the UN for support
13. How Israel Is Helping Iran’s Opposition
14. The U.S. has the world’s most advanced military, but the unforgiving economics of wars in Iran and Ukraine show quantity has a quality all its own
15. Iran War Live: Trump Threatens to Hit Iran’s Power Plants if Hormuz Isn’t Reopened in 48 Hours
16. Ukraine Is Suddenly on the Offensive, With Help From Elon Musk
17. The New Weapons of Global Power Are Oil, Rare Earths and Microchips
18. Flights Are Still Taking Off as Missiles Rain Down in the Middle East
19. Pentagon to reportedly keep National Guard in DC three more years
20. The War with Iran May Already be Lost
21. VOA’s English newsroom upheld editorial standards for the global news agency

Korean News:

1. Korea cannot afford to sit out Hormuz mission
2. Burning Iran, Kim Jong-un’s Composure
3. N. Korea set to convene 1st session of new Supreme People’s Assembly
4. [Robert J. Fouser] The 386 Generation’s final act
5. Gov’t, ruling party agree upon 25 tln-won supplementary budget amid Middle East crisis
6. Finance minister calls for preparation for prolonged Middle East crisis
7. North Korea’s Assembly Eyes ‘Hostile Two-State Theory’ Constitutional Revision
8. North Korea’s 9th Congress: Dual ‘Candy and Bullets’ Strategy
9. <Inside N. Korea> Confiscated Private “Small Plots” Leased to Institutions and Enterprises as State Revenue Stream — “Hand Over 40% of Your Harvest”
10. <Inside N. Korea> Prices Surging! Gasoline Up More Than 40% Week-on-Week — Accelerating Inflation Deepens Hardship
11. SK hynix to introduce pilot program to foster English usage: sources
12. Fans in festive mood as BTS comes back after 4-yr hiatus
13. BTS stages concert in Seoul’s Gwanghwamun to mark long-awaited return
14. BTS opens up about fears, excitement at historic ‘Arirang’ stage
15. Songzio’s ‘Lyrical Armor’ shapes BTS’ ‘Arirang’ comeback stage
16. VOA’s English newsroom upheld editorial standards for the global news agency

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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