4/1/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
04.01.2026 at 11:10pm
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National Security News:
Apologies for my tardiness. I was traveling most of the day so I am behind.
1. You Don’t Think There’s a Plan? Really?
2. Trump says US may exit Iran war soon, threatens to quit NATO as oil crisis escalates
3. Hegseth Doubles Down on Iran Pressure
4. President Trump says US could finish Iran operation within two to three weeks
5. Years Before Prince Sultan Attack, U.S. Officials Sounded Alarm About Gulf Bases
6. Iran bolstered by CRINK partner North Korea with offensive missiles, defensive tunnels
7. Iran’s ‘basement’ Chinese drone networks spark fears of sleeper cell attacks on US soil
8. US directs embassies to team up against foreign ‘hostility’ – and use X to ‘counter anti-American propaganda’
9. Risky commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request
10. The U.S. Military Has a Plan for Everything
11. How Trump’s complex operation to extract Iran’s enriched uranium could unfold
12. Remember the Oil Shocks of the ’70s? This Is Going to Be Worse. Much Worse.
13. How China’s propaganda is spinning the Iran war
14. Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato
15. 3rd Special Forces Group Pioneers Transformation for Multidomain Operations
16. From Creating to Engineering: Conspiracy Theories in Information Warfare
17. “Japan First” in the Indo-Pacific: Takaichi’s Shift from Pacifist Constraint to Allied Mobilization
18. Is the United States Drifting Toward Rogue State Perception?
19. Trump’s threat against Iran desalination plants would be a war crime, legal experts say
20. Old-school spycraft could make a comeback as AI undermines trust
Korean News:
1. When ‘socialism’ means control, not freedom – A constitutional shift in North Korea state identity
2.Take Kim Jong Un at his word
3. Iran bolstered by CRINK partner North Korea with offensive missiles, defensive tunnels
4. “Japan First” in the Indo-Pacific: Takaichi’s Shift from Pacifist Constraint to Allied Mobilization
5. Putin’s lost allies: why North Korea is Israel’s greatest threat
6. Gen. Brunson Tells West Point Plebes: The Weight Is Responsibility, Not Burden
7. Unification Minister mourns former North Korean IOC member Chang Ung
8. South Korea to fully open DMZ peace trail routes
9. South Korea resumes excavation of war remains at DMZ battle site
10. S. Korea intelligence agency says drone case was ‘personal misconduct’
11. Trump says S. Korea ‘not helpful,’ cites U.S. troops near ‘nuclear force’ on peninsula
12. What Kim Jong-un Should Fear Most: People, Not Strikes
