4/16/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
04.16.2026 at 04:26pm
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National Security News:
1. Exclusive | Pentagon Approaches Automakers, Manufacturers to Boost Weapons Production
2. Iran’s Shadow Fleet Meets Its Match in U.S. Blockade
3. Counter-UAS Marketplace Streamlines Acquisition, First Purchases Total $13 Million
4. FAA and DOW Sign Landmark Safety Agreemen
t to Protect Southern Border
5. Army names its first tiltrotor aircraft: Cheyenne II
6. Orbán’s loss won’t stop Russian influence campaigns, but it shows they’re beatable
7. Who Should Control AI’s Most Dangerous Secrets?
8. Iran Is Teaching Us Something About the American War Machine
9. Just War Doctrine: The Pope, JD Vance and a Theological Debate
10. CENTCOM using underwater drones to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz
11. A Private Equity Billionaire Mounts His Biggest Takeover Yet: the Pentagon
12. Iran’s War-Shattered Economy Means It Has an Urgent Reason to Negotiate
13. Putin’s Obsession with Ukraine
14. Redefining Readiness: Why US Special Operations Forces Must Be Optimized for Irregular Competition
15. Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Is a Political Gamble
16. Trump Should Negotiate for Iranian Freedom, Not Just Nuclear Promises
17. Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases
18. Operationalizing Economic Statecraft: A New Imperative for the Pentagon
19. Designing Lethal Decisions: AI, Accountability, and the Future of Military Judgment
20. The End of Managed Escalation in the Gulf
21. A Fragile Ceasefire with Iran and the Price of Ending the War
22. Cyberwar’s New Frontier: How AI Agents Will Threaten Global Security
23. US Navy leaning on AI to sweep Iran’s Hormuz mines
24. What the Iran War Means for the “Axis of Resistance”
25. Trump may have landed on the genius strategy that could win the war in Iran
Korean News:
1. As hybrid warfare rises, Korea faces readiness questions
2. South Korea at the end of empire?
3. South Korea’s Harder Line on Israel Amid Energy Shock
4. North Korea avoids ‘Day of the Sun’ term in state media
5. S. Korea positively considering joining talks on naval mission for Hormuz led by Britain, France
6. Two Americans sentenced over North Korea IT worker scheme
7. President expected to attend multilateral online summit on Hormuz Friday
8. Kim Jong Un oversees artillery contest on North Korean founder’s birthday
9. Kim Jong Un marks special forces anniversary with rest order and ideological crackdown
10. North Korea’s black market dollar rate breaks all-time record as China trade expands
11. North Korean farmers ditch food crops for cash crops as market logic takes hold
12. Middle East conflicts’ implications for two Koreas
13. S. Korea stresses market economy principle, forced labor eradication efforts in opinion on USTR trade probe
14. Kim Jong-un Orders Accelerated Combat Preparations During Day of the Sun
15. Major Russian airline says it has received OK to fly over North Korea
16. ‘Kimchi MAGA’ are marginalizing conservatives, says Reform Party chair
