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5/6/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.06.2026 at 10:30pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Gulf States Fear an Emboldened Iran Is Taking Advantage of a Hesitant U.S.
2. China Is Still Supplying Drone Factories in Iran, Russia Despite U.S. Sanctions
3. High Gas Prices Wreak Havoc on America’s Army of Supercommuters
4. NATO nations size up an interceptor-drone bazaar where low price is everything
5. The Cheap Guided Rockets U.S. Forces Use Against Iranian Drones
6. White House Insists Iran War Is Over, Even While Missiles Fly
7. In Romania, Living With Weapons of War Spilling Into NATO Territory
8. Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show
9. The U.S. Army’s ‘Big Experiment’ in the Arctic Cold
10. How to Lose an Information War in 10 Days
11. The Plow and the Well: Conflict Is Moving to Systems
12. Irregular Warfare, Part One: Updating the Term and the Toolkit
13. Scammers, Saps, and Saboteurs: The Scam Attack and the New Fifth Column
14. How the War with Iran Is Shaping U.S.-Chinese Competition
15. The Risk of Irrelevance: Multidomain Operations and the Problem for NATO’s Small States
16. Between Intent and Capability: Assessing the Lack of Iranian Attacks on the U.S. Homeland

Korean News:

1. A Comprehensive North Korea Policy and Strategy and Campaign Design
2. North Korea revises constitution to drop reunification goal
3. If Kim Jong Un can have nukes, why can’t Iran?
4. South Korea op-ed criticizes unification minister over remarks
5. The Imperfect Lessons of North Korea’s Nukes
6. North Korea’s Strongwoman-in-Waiting
7. Seoul’s alleged leak of North Korean intel piles pressure on D.C.-Seoul relations
8. Suspension of Project Freedom makes Seoul’s review of participation unnecessary: Cheong Wa Dae
9. North Korea purges officials for poor economic performance after Ninth Party Congress
10. S. Korean, U.S. Marines demonstrate aviation ground support capabilities during KMEP exercise

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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