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5/9/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.09.2026 at 05:49pm
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National Security News:

1. Views of America by Secretary Marco Rubio
2. The Last Undefended Perimeter
3. The U.S. and China Have a Common Foe. Hint: It’s Not the U.S.S.R.
4. Muted U.S. Response to Iranian Attacks Deepens Gulf Fears About Cease-Fire
5. Iran Tests Trump’s Will to Fight (WSJ Editorial Board)
6. Trump Reversed Hormuz Plan After Saudis Denied Airspace Access
7. China Sees a ‘Giant With a Limp’ as U.S. Drains Weapons on Iran War
8. Rep. Young Kim Leads Bill to Deter CCP Aggression Against Taiwan
9. The Geometry of Coercion: Tracking the PRC’s Maritime and Air Pressure on Taiwan
10. China’s grey-zone fleet is eroding Taiwan’s control at sea
11. Japan’s quiet shift into a security power and what it means for ASEAN
12. U.S. Army Island Hops Missile Launcher Near SCS at Balikatan
13. Compass Points – Marine Missiles? Missiles fly at Balikatan 2026
14. Drone Strikes, Deep Strikes: How Ukraine’s Long-Range Air Attacks Are Hurting Russia
15. Enlarging China’s Malacca Dilemma
16. Hard and psychological power shown in South China Sea exercise
17. America has lost the will to fight: Its heroic age is over by Edward Luttwak

Korean News:

1. USFK commander proposes regional ‘kill web’ linking Indo-Pacific allied forces
2. S. Korean destroyer to deploy with anti-drone upgrades amid Hormuz tensions
3. Where Would Iran be in This War Without North Korea? | Eye on Korea Ep. 33
4. Rep. Young Kim Leads Bill to Deter CCP Aggression Against Taiwan
5. S. Korea, U.S. sign MOU to advance shipbuilding cooperation
6. Trump says, ‘I love S. Korea,’ after Seoul, Washington sign MOU on shipbuilding cooperation
7. Defense Minister Ahn to visit U.S. next week for talks with Hegseth
8. Bessent to visit S. Korea next week en route to China for Trump-Xi summit: sources
9. N. Korean troops march in Russia’s Victory Day parade for 1st time
10. N. Korea’s Kim reaffirms commitment to deepening ties with Russia in Victory Day message
11. President Lee Jae Myung’s Needed ‘True Self-Reliance’
12. North Korea will launch a nuclear weapon if Kim Jong Un assassinated
13. South Korea’s soft power influence on North Korea

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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