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4/11/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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04.11.2026 at 05:58pm
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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. The Era of Free Seas Is Unraveling—and Now Everyone’s Going to Pay
2. A 2023 special ops exercise in Wyoming was a preview of the Iran rescue mission
3. Iran Has Thousands of Missiles and Could Retrieve Launchers, U.S. Intelligence Finds
4. Opinion | U.S. missile burn rate in Iran leaves the Pacific cupboard bare
5. Iran Unable to Find Mines It Planted in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Says
6. What will it take for U.S. and Iran to end war? Here’s what we know.
7. Iran Has Been Consistent in War. Will It Be Consistent in Peace Talks?
8. The Kremlin’s Expanding Media Conglomerate
9. How France learned to fight Russian disinformation
10. Inside the Pro-Iran Meme Machine Trolling Trump With AI Lego Cartoons
11. Generative AI as a weapon of war in Iran | Brookings
12. Strategic Impatience and the Undoing of American Soft Power
13. Cognitive Warfare and the Changing Character of Engagement: A Neurostrategic Perspective
14. Trump Administration Pushes Biggest Noncombat Ship Upgrade in Decades
15. Opinion | Taiwan and the Trump-Xi Meeting
16. Historical Examples of Modern Warfighting Terms
17. The Iran War’s Real Lessons for China
18. There’s growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse

Korean News:

1. The Surprising Source of North Korea’s Enduring Power
2. North Korea: Whoever is at the helm, the regime serves only itself
3. Why Trump’s Hormuz rebuke won’t derail South Korea’s ‘very strong’ alliance with US
4. N Korea building a new war playbook from Iran and Ukraine
5. North Korean leader Kim backs China’s push for ‘multipolar world’ in talks with foreign minister
6. OP-ED: South Korea wary of Trump troop redeployment talk
7. N. Korea’s Kim says Pyongyang puts ‘top priority’ on developing ties with China in meeting with Wang
8. Trump says U.S. starting clearing out Strait of Hormuz ‘as a favor’ to S. Korea, China, Japan, others
9. South Korea’s Security Ultimately a North Korean Nuclear Issue
10. Kim Jong Un vows support for China ‘realizing’ territorial policy on Taiwan
11. N. Korea’s Kim vows ‘multi-faceted’ development of ties with China in meeting with Wang

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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