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5/13/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.13.2026 at 05:53pm
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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Director of Pentagon’s secretive Strategic Capabilities Office lays out focus areas
2. What Trump and Xi Want to Achieve at Their High-Stakes Summit
3. Target Audience Analysis of the Iranian Lego Video: Unpacking the Virality of AI Propaganda – EdgeTheory
4. Irregular Warfare, Part Two: AI Approaches, Implications, and Proposed Recommendations
5. Special Operations Forces test mobile platform for direct satellite imagery access
6. Uncovering China’s attacks on investigative journalism in the Philippines
7. Field Observation: What the Trump-Xi Summit Is Actually Building
8. U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities
9. Congress Faces a Growing Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s Expanding Budget
10. Drone Swarms Packed Into Unassuming Containers Sought By DARPA
11. The age of asymmetry – the weak have learned how to make the strong bleed
12. Tuned to Perfection: China’s Irregular Warfare at Sea
13. Opinion | What a former CIA analyst reveals about a potential China fight
14. Part 2: The U.S. Munitions Problem
15. AI-First Professional Military Education: Validating the Grade Chain Before the Kill Chain
16. Professional Military Education Is a National Security Imperative
17. The Steppe Is Not a Fortress: What Mongolia Can Learn from Iran’s Mosaic Defense

Korean News:

1. Taken, Yet Not Forgotten: North Korean Abductions, We Must Find out the Truth about David Louis Sneddon
2. Future of U.S. forces in Korea rests with Seoul
3. What’s Washington’s position? (toward the ROK/US alliance)
4. Korea, U.S. defense chiefs discuss Seoul’s phased involvement in Iran war, ‘different views’ on Opcon transfer
5. Pentagon talks include South Korea taking wartime command of allied forces
6. Seoul mulling possible role in U.S. freedom of navigation initiative in Hormuz: security adviser
7. N. Korea’s Kim calls for strengthening mortar, howitzer capabilities
8. ROK defense chief acknowledges gap with US over command of DPRK wartime response

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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