3/23/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
03.23.2026 at 05:28pm
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National Security News:
1. Book Review | Those Who Face Death: The Untold Story of Special Forces and the Iraqi Kurdish Resistance
2. The Sentinel’s Bias – Notes From a Conditional Citizen By Isaiah “Ike” Wilson III
3. The Elder’s Gambit and the Practice of Narrative Warfare
4. What is Hybrid Warfare? A Comprehensive Guide
5. Iran’s Future Remains Uncertain With (or Without) Regime Change
6. The Architecture of Resistance: Why Iran’s Ideological Statecraft Outlasts Nuclear Diplomacy
7. War with Iran: Trump’s Zero-Sum Game
8. Opinion | American Credibility Is on the Line in Iran
9. Why Iran does not appear ready to give in, despite heavy losses
10. The rise of the ‘leadership first’ strike — and why it’s so important in warfare
11. The Iranian Prisons Where Bombs Are Threatening Dissidents and Americans
12. Mystery of missing or dead US scientists: Troubling link revealed
13. Opinion | Cuba Tries One More Big Con
14. The Lecture I Couldn’t Give
15. Trump Is Making America Weaker. And Stronger
16. Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran
17. US intelligence flags five nations as top security threats
18. Trump Says Military Will Postpone Further Strikes on Iranian Energy Infrastructure
19. Trump-Xi summits: an inside view with US ex-diplomat William Klein
20. The Battlefield is the Next Betting Market
21. Trump’s Visit to China Won’t Fix Much, If It Even Happens
22. Discovery Before Disaster: The Louisiana Maneuvers and the Untested Warfighting Concepts of Today’s Army
23. America Has No Good Options in Iran
24. Iranians ‘weeks away’ from another uprising, Israeli security insider says
25. How China Forgot Karl Marx
26. Army receives a new Black Hawk helicopter, pilot optional
27. Orbis (re) Introduced by the Foreign Policy Research Institute
28. Why military fellowships at civilian universities matter
Korean News:
1. With rise of Korean wave, being Korean means something different than it did decade ago
2. North Korea’s Cyber Goldmine: How Hackers Are Turning Sanctions Into Billions
3. 25 pct of N. Korean defectors from near Punggye-ri nuclear test site show chromosome mutations: data
4. Inconvenient truth behind BTS comeback show
5. Lee stresses self-reliant defense, citing ‘very complex’ global situation
6. North Korean parliament reelects Kim as leader and elevates his top aides
7. US military cuts Chinese batteries; Korea steps in
8. Kim Yo Jong says North Korea has ‘no reason’ to hold summit with Japan
9. N. Korea’s Kim brings in loyal cadres to center of power to further reinforce his rule
10. Putin congratulates N.K.’s Kim on reelection, voices hope for closer ties
11. FM Cho urges safe navigation in Strait of Hormuz in phone talks with Iranian counterpart
12. PM Kim cancels trip to China amid Middle East conflict
13. Korea weighs noncombat role in Hormuz tension
14. US nuclear projects emerge as income sources for Korean firms amid Iran crisis
