4/13/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
04.13.2026 at 05:36pm
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National Security News:
1. What if Trump hadn’t attacked Iran? The answer should terrify you
2. When the war in Iran comes home: Why the US isn’t ready for increasing hybrid threats
3. China, Iran weaponized the global economy to beat the U.S. at its own game
4. A Ukrainian-Japanese $2,500 Drone Is About to Change the Gulf War—And Sparks Russian Fury
5. Trump’s Path to Greenland Ownership Goes Via Iran—and May Finish NATO
6. Gulf Allies Turn Away From U.S. for Fresh Ammo (and to South Korea)
7.Friendly Strangers: How Two Peoples Across the Taiwan Strait Are Drifting Apart
8. SOF Weekly Brief – April 13, 2026
9. Mind Games: How Disaggregated Power Is Reshaping Warfare
10. Structure, Agency, and the Stability Gamble: What Irregular Warfare Theory Reveals About U.S. Strategy
11. Oil Revenues as the IRGC’s Center of Gravity: The Case for Strikes on Kharg
12. How Iran Wasted the Ceasefire
13. Opinion | What really happened in Islamabad — and what Trump is trying now
14. Ukraine’s Drones Could Launch a Military Tech Revolution
15. How the West is empowering China’s war machine
16. A Review of “The First Island Chained: Taiwan Resistance and Resilience” Wargame and Workshop
17. A Closed Strait of Hormuz Risks a Global Food Security Crisis
18. Regime Change in Iran, Underpants Gnomes, and the Phase II Problem
19. The Dead Zone and the Empty Battlefield
20. The Foundational Metal of War: Aluminum, the Middle East War, and America’s Strategic Vulnerability.
21. Pope Leo Says He Has ‘No Fear’ After President’s Attack
22. Fort Sam ceremony marks end of an era as San Antonio braces for loss of two Army headquarters
Korean News:
1. US court blocks extradition of former Marine who stormed North Korean Embassy
2. NATO envoys to visit S. Korea this week for talks on defense industry cooperation, N. Korea
3. Lee, Polish PM agree to upgrade bilateral ties to comprehensive strategic partnership
4. South Korea’s drone warfare gaps
5. ‘Silicon Island’: Korea’s borrowed future
6. Army unit chief named new ground operations commander
7. S. Korea closely monitoring developments after U.S. announces blockade of Iranian ports: Cheong Wa Dae
8. Pro-N. Korea paper claims reliance on U.S.-led order risks national interests amid Mideast war
9. Universal value of human rights
10. Gulf Allies Turn Away From U.S. for Fresh Ammo (and to South Korea)
11. Russian military jet makes second visit to North Korea in a week
12. Satellite imagery shows Yongbyon nuclear complex in active modernization phase
13. North Koreans mock ‘second’ reforestation drive: ‘When did the first one happen?’
14. North Korea kicks off tourism expo amid hopes for reopening to Chinese visitors
