4/28/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
04.28.2026 at 05:16pm
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National Security News:
1. Opinion | It’s Way Too Early to Declare Defeat in Iran
2. Claudia Sheinbaum Is Learning the Price of Appeasing Trump
3. Head of U.S. military in South Korea calls for ‘kill web’ linking Seoul, Tokyo and Manila
4. Operationalizing US Forces Japan: Why Japan Is the Optimal Location for a Joint Force Headquarters
5. Trump Is Dissatisfied With Iran’s Plan to Reopen Strait of Hormuz
6. Iranian foreign minister meets with Putin as U.S.-Iran talks falter
7. Spy drones are compromising America’s nuclear triad
8. Pentagon’s drone strategy calls for putting $54 billion DAWG in the fight
9. What we know about the US military’s new joint laser weapon system
10. America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War
11. Deterrence in the South China Sea Fails Without Information Authority
12. The Mountaintop Mirage: Why Xi’s Military Purges Cannot Produce the Force He Wants
13. From Slogan to Standard: How the Pentagon Should Define Affordable Mass
14. Watching Iran, China Hopes to Learn New Tricks for the Taiwan Strait
15. The United States Is Betraying Its Afghan Allies. The World Will Take Note.
16. Special Forces Deep Operations
17. The Military Needs a ‘Service Life Extension Program’ for Its People
18. The Illusion of Chaos in a Governance-Saturated World
19. Eight Reasons Military Veterans Should Write by Robert Bruce Adolph
20. Trump questions why his top advisors are living on military bases
21. From Mandate to Execution: The Clear–Shield–Sustain Model for Contested Stabilization
22. Let Iran Defeat Itself: America Should End the War but Keep Up the Pressure
Korean News:
1. Mountains turned myth, bloodlines preserved: How propaganda turns nature into a stage for a “Living God.”
2. Head of U.S. military in South Korea calls for ‘kill web’ linking Seoul, Tokyo and Manila
3. Operationalizing US Forces Japan: Why Japan Is the Optimal Location for a Joint Force Headquarters
4. Can Trump Still Deal With Kim Jong Un After Strikes on Iran?
5. North Korea executions surged during pandemic crackdown, report says
6. Report outlines South Korea nuclear command strategy framework
7. South Korea, DeepMind launch AI partnership for ‘K-Moonshot’
8. HD Hyundai wins two U.S. Navy research contracts
9. North Korea is the ‘most pressing challenge’ for non-proliferation regime: Seoul
10. Russian ship linked to arms smuggling returns to North Korean port
11. Inside the little-known ROK army unit that trains to fight like North Koreans
12. EXCLUSIVE: I visited the North Korean border – it’s even weirder than I expected
13. Lee says will resolve ‘pending issues’ with allies thru mutual respect
14. 96 Korean lawmakers blast US for ‘infringing on judicial sovereignty’ over Coupang probe
15. Calling N. Korea by its official name subject of public debate: ministry
16. Washington’s North Korea reckoning
