4/27/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
04.27.2026 at 06:27pm
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National Security News:
1. Aborted Pakistan Trip Leaves Trump With Tough Choices on Iran Talks
2. Taiwan Fears It’ll Be ‘On the Menu’ at Xi’s Summit With Trump
3. China has ‘deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns’ to steal US AI models, White House says
4. From the Telegraph to the Smartphone: How Information Technology Unified a Nation
5. The Other China Flash Point: Like Taiwan, the South China Sea Could Spark a U.S.-China War
6. Weekly SOF Brief – April 27, 2026
7. The Pentagon Needed Rare Earths—and Found a Supplier in Malaysia
8. U.S. Special Operations launches push for next-gen maritime weapons
9. The Marine Corps Must Plan Now for a Long War with China | USNI Proceedings
10. Irregular Warfare: If We Ever Stop Arguing About IW, Then IW Will Be Dead
11. Nationalism versus patriotism — who are we as Americans?
12. The US military wants to add 44,500 additional troops next year
13. Trump believes Britain has betrayed the SAS
14. War Without a Theory of Victory: How the United States Lost the Strategic Thread in Iran by Joe Funderburke
15. The Cost of the Iran War for the United States: A Strategic Blunder in Five Dimensions
16. ‘The Indo-Pacific is the defining strategic theatre’: How committed is US to this region?
17. Out of Depth: Shortcomings in U.S. Police Assistance and Coordination Warrant a Shift in the Pacific Islands
18. Vector Reverberations: Challenging the New Great Game in Conflicts’ Live Laboratory
19. Q&A with Robert D. Kaplan Geopolitics in 2026
20. Beijing’s United Front and the Quiet Transfer of Western Technology
Korean News:
1. Toward a Free and Unified Korea—Resolving the Korea Challenge at Its Source
2. Kim’s Dangerous Liaisons: Russia, China, and the Growing North Korea Threat
3. Ex-President Moon urges N. Korean leader to return to dialogue on summit anniv.
4. N. Korea Kim Jong Un observes artillery drills on partisan anniversary
5. S. Korea’s arms industry faces strategic setbacks despite export boom
6. OP-ED: IMF debt warning sparks debate over S. Korea’s fiscal outlook
7. What are they afraid of? Why are some of America’s leading experts on Korea scared of criticizing the South Korean government?
8. Seoul’s top envoy to U.S., FM Cho discuss N.K. intel controversy, Coupang issue
9. U.S. restricts intelligence-sharing with S. Korea on N. Korea’s nuclear facilities: sources
10. North Korean officials skeptical of Kim Ju Ae as successor despite military appearances
11. ROK carries out ‘decisive’ phase of landing drills designed to deter North Korea
12. North Korea sends envoys to key posts in bid to act like ‘normal state’
