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4/29/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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04.29.2026 at 04:59pm
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National Security News:

1. SOF at the Edge: AI and Autonomy Take Center Stage at USSOCOM Hearing
2. SOCOM adding AI, autonomy ‘at every level,’ commander says
3. US intelligence examining how Iran would react to Donald Trump declaring victory
4. Trump Tells Aides to Prepare for Extended Blockade of Iran
5. Opinion | Why is the Pentagon holding up Ukraine funds? by Mitch McConnell
6. Opinion | Ukraine took Russia’s best punch. It wants to teach Europe what it learned.
7.  The Global Energy Order Is Breaking Down
8. Amid Iran War and Tensions with Neighbors, U.A.E. Goes Its Own Way
9. Field Observation: The UAE Exited an Architecture
10. I Played Putin in a War Game. The Most Dangerous Period May Be Coming.
11. The U.S. Wants to Ban China’s High-Tech Cars, but They’re Already Here in El Paso
12. Japan and China Are Edging Dangerously Close to Conflict
13. The Army Needs an Asymmetric Warfare Group Again — More Than Ever
14. In a fragmenting global order, former Japanese leader urges pivot to China
15. Missiles, Guns, Lasers . . . and Nets: The Case for Passive Drone Defenses
16. Expanding frontiers: China’s military push beyond the first island chain
17. US troops receive threatening messages from Iran-linked hacker group
18. Department of Defense asks Congress to amend its name to Department of War

Korean News:

1. Party Control of the North Korean Military at the Battalion Level
2. US Congress holds first North Korean human rights hearing in years… “North Korea, one of the most repressive regimes in the world”
3. North Korea ICBMs can strike U.S. mainland, Pentagon official says
4. South Korea urges global backing on North Korea nuclear issue
5. South Korea deploys 5 spy satellites, advances ‘kill chain’
6. SK chairman calls for deeper South Korea-Japan economic ties
7. DeepMind chief reunites with baduk champion 10 yrs after historic match
8. Heir apparent? What to look for in North Korea’s possible successor
9. North Korea’s donju go dark as post-congress crackdown spreads fear
10. Restoring trust in strained Korea-US alliance

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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