5/22/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
05.22.2026 at 04:22pm
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National Security News:
1. Pier Review: Leveraging the Allied Maritime Industrial Base for U.S. Shipbuilding
2. Strait of Hormuz escort missions would ‘exceed’ Navy’s capacity, CNO says
3. ‘Have to be very careful’: Special ops head calls for combat AI ‘reality check’
4. Top Special Ops Civilian Recounts Successes, Lays Out Vision for Future
5. SOCOM Commander Says Special Operations Needs ‘PhDs Who Can Win a Bar Fight’
6. Trump Postpones AI Order Because of Concerns About Overregulation
7. Iran Moved Billions Through Binance to Fund Regime—Continuing Into This Month
8. Opinion | China Won’t See the Iran War as a Green Light for Aggression
9. U.S. bears brunt of Israel’s missile defense, Pentagon assessments show
10. Inside Israel’s secret operation to turn Hezbollah’s beepers into bombs
11. Opinion | The Iran War and the Anti-American Reflex
12. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
13. One year in, Army’s transformation efforts are under fire
14. Xi’s back-to-back meetings with Trump and Putin in Beijing: everything you need to know
15. Xi and Putin tout ‘new type’ of world order in Beijing
16. Rethinking Artificial Intelligence at the Strategic Frontier
17. For Russia, AI and “Traditional Values” are Part of the Same Security Logic
18. Distributed Combat Power: How Ukraine is Redefining Fires, Electronic Warfare, and Air Defense at the Tactical Level
19. The Lethal, Learning Lieutenant: Advice for New Officers
20. The Pentagon Still Cannot Manage Cyber Talent at Scale. Here’s the Fix.
21. The Coming Contest for Asia’s Waterways: What Hormuz Unleashed
22. The Kid Rock Flyby Controversy and the Erosion of Military Professionalism
Korean News:
1. Pier Review: Leveraging the Allied Maritime Industrial Base for U.S. Shipbuilding
2. Emerging Trump doctrine: Seeking 3 goals
3. Chinese President Xi likely to visit N. Korea as early as next week: sources
4. S. Korea to acquire U.S. SM-6 missile interceptors for deployment by 2034
5. 2 S. Koreans seized on Gaza-bound aid vessels return home
6. Lee’s approval rating rebounds to 64 percent: poll
7. South Korea eyes possible Xi-Kim meeting
8. Vice FM meets U.S. lawmaker, policy expert to discuss alliance, joint fact sheet
9. Trump-Xi summit didn’t change North Korea’s strategic reality
10. Russian researchers begin oil and gas exploration off North Korea’s east coast
11. Unification Minister Chung Stresses ROK-U.S. Cooperation for Peace
12. U.N. rights expert says resolving N.K. abductee issue prerequisite for peace
13. Editorial: If Life Is Top Priority, What About Citizens Held in the North?
14. The North Korea carnival is back
15. King Sejong’s birthday, Korea’s oldest vision: ‘Benefit all of humanity’
16. North Korean women, capitalist feminism and human security
