4/6/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
04.06.2026 at 09:15pm
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National Security News:
1. Transcript: Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” April 5, 2026
2. A Downed Airman, a Mountain Hideout and a High-Risk Rescue in Iran
3. Downed US airman said to have directed strikes on Iranian positions from hiding place
4. How America Broke the Iranian Regime
5. The ‘Experts’ in Media and Academia Who Insist Iran Is Winning
6. How Elite American Forces Are Trained to Survive Behind Enemy Lines
7. Trump Warns Iran He Could Strike ‘Every Power Plant,’ in WSJ Interview
8. A Plan to End the Iran War?
9. The Army’s Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF)
10. Book Review | Multidomain Operations: The Pursuit of Battlefield Dominance in the 21st Century
11. The Banality of Resistance: How We Keep Misreading Iran
12. France’s Efforts To Strengthen Its Drone Warfare Capabilities: Focus on the 2024-2030 Military Programming Law (MPL)
13. From Bargain to Breakdown: Five Strategic Futures for the Iran War
14. Transforming Army Education: The Leadership Laboratory
15. Inside the Pentagon, fears of a disrupted war effort after Army chief’s ouster
16. The Age of Unlearning: How Democracies Lost Their Grip on Strategic Time
17. Sharpening Signals and Reducing Noise for Better Defense Budgets
18. Poland Bought Reapers. The Battlefield Has Moved On.
19. The Iran Shock: And the Dangerous Allure of Energy Autarky
20. Avoiding the Next Gulf War
21. Europe Is Stuck With America
22. Opinion | Europe Looks Away From Troubling Signs in Ukraine
23. Why a Superpower Finds Itself Alone
24. How Good is Our Intelligence on Iran?
25. Contesting the rimlands: Ukraine, Iran, Korea?
26. ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy
Korean News:
1. Contesting the rimlands: Ukraine, Iran, Korea?
2. Head of spy agency tells lawmakers that N. Korean leader’s daughter appears to be his successor
3. It’s ‘appropriate to regard’ Kim Jong Un’s daughter as successor: ROK spy agency
4. U.S., South Korea launch joint search for aircraft lost in Korean War
5. Lee expresses regret over drone flights by individuals into N. Korea
6. Kim Jong Un compliments South Korea’s president for expressing regret
7. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
8. Cabinet approves motion to amend some texts in Constitution
9. S. Korean military launches annual Hwarang defense drills
10. What’s behind North Korea’s sudden push to deepen ties with China, Russia?
11. South Korea’s Big Three Shipbuilders Selectively Secure Tanker Orders
12. ‘America First’ clashes with heavy-handed Korea: US companies at odds with Korean regulators
13. South Korea’s Diplomatic Floundering, Forgetting Basics
14. A new paradigm for nuclear-free Korean Peninsula
15. North Korea’s new spy agency name evokes South Korea’s Cold War secret police
16. S. Korea eyes moon landing in 2030
17. Employing the American uncontrolled narrative for national security
