5/20/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
05.20.2026 at 04:37pm
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National Security News:
1. The Hidden Chinese Influence in AI
2. That Political Video You Just Liked Is Probably an Ad
2. That Political Video You Just Liked Is Probably an Ad
3. Taiwan Presses Its Case After Trump Puts Arms Sales in Question
4. Beijing rebukes Philippines over claim proximity guarantees involvement in Taiwan conflict
5. Are we on the cusp of a maritime renaissance in time to meet the PRC challenge?
6. US Navy anti-ship missile arsenal: Major expansion
7. Special Ops Convention Convenes Under ‘Peace Through Strength’ Strategy
8. The National Defense Strategy Demands Strong Allies: SOF Provides the Nerve System to Make Alliances Serve Mutual National Security Interests
9. Senior Leaders Discuss Recruiting STEM Candidates Into Special Ops
10. A New Vision for Special Forces Bury the Beret? The Radical Blueprint for Special Forces Restructuring
11. AFSOC Unveils OA-1K Skyraider II Rapid Deployment Capability at SOF Week
12. How Iran Got to the Nuclear Threshold on the Watch of Three U.S. Presidents
13. Ordinary Crime, Hybrid Threat, or Irregular Warfare?
14. Africa After the 2025 National Security Strategy: Burden Sharing, Extremism, and New Sovereignty Politics
15. The Narrowing Margin of American Power
16. The Jazz Band of Mars: What if the Army’s Shift to Division-Centric Warfighting is Wrong?
17. Machine Overmatch: What Salt Typhoon Reveals About China’s Data-Centric Intelligence Strategy
18. The Navy Needs Precise Mass and Here Is How to Get There
19. Why Mexico’s Cartels Are So Hard to Defeat
20. Iran as Vietnam, Ukraine as Korea
Korean News:
1. Party Control of the North Korean Military at the Battalion Level
2. Songdowon Camp sanctions and North Korean troop deployment
2. Songdowon Camp sanctions and North Korean troop deployment
3. Lee condemns Israel over detained Koreans, weighs Netanyahu arrest in Korea
4. Government’s idea of 2-state coexistence with N. Korea draws dispute
5. ‘Peaceful two-state’ vision fundamentally different from Pyongyang’s Korean policy: minister
6. Military begins formal procedures to acquire nuclear-powered submarines
7. South Korea conducts major air drills amid scrutiny over North Korea posture
8. Former Unification Director Condemns ‘Peaceful Two-State Theory’ as Anti-Unification
9. North Korea is relieved its nuclear weapons have prevented a fate like Iran’s
10. Potential $4.2B military helicopter sale for S. Korea approved by Washington
11. Samsung’s weather app sparks storm of controversy by handing territory to North Korea
12. The 2016 Liam Neeson movie that was threatened by North Korea
13. Lee, Takaichi agree to join hands to restore peace on Korean Peninsula
