6/2/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.02.2026 at 04:20pm
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National Security News:
1. The Killing Machine: Ten Thousand Years and We Still Haven’t Figured This Out
2. F-15E pilot downed over Iran had been shot down a month prior
3. Opinion | Pete Hegseth Goes to Asia
4. The Purges Are the Campaign: Why the standard reads on Xi’s PLA purges miss campaign integration as the operating doctrine.
5. U.S. Presses Neutral Oman to Pick a Side and Cut Ties With Iran
6. Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List
7. As Russia fails to achieve war aims in Ukraine, Putin needs a way out
8. Pentagon bans journalists from press office, designating it a classified space
9. Managing the Strategic Gradient: Governance, Doctrine, and the Logic of Irregular War
10. How America’s Adversaries Compete Across Peace and War
11. Invisible Conflict: Defending Against Hybrid Non-Kinetic Warfare
12. Deterrence Is Not Enough in the Age of Synthetic Asymmetry
13. Not ‘just a gun’: New SOCOM rifle allows barrel swapping and cartridge changes
14. US military seeks cultural advisors in Somalia amid regional strikes
15. False Targets, Real Survivability: Here’s What’s Keeping the Army from Borrowing Ukraine’s Air Defense Decoy Techniques
16. Between Beijing and the Budget: The Domestic Realities of Taiwan’s Defense Spending Drama
17. The Toll Booth at the Throat of World Trade
18. Iran Embraces a Forever War: Tehran’s New Strategic Calculus
19. U.S. Army Requests 857 THAAD Air Defense Interceptors in Major Indo-Pacific Missile Defense Expansion
20. House Wants the Army to Consider Sea Drones for Watercraft Escort Missions
Korean News:
1. Veteran North Korea Expert Calls Defectors Key to Unification
2. Death of secrecy: a North Korean escapee’s warning
3. Opinion | South Korea Takes a Hard Left Turn Against America
4. S. Korea, U.S. wrap up 1st day of security talks on nuclear-powered submarine
5. Kim Jong Un honors women’s soccer champions after South Korea triumph
6. U.S. scholar under probe for defaming Lee files suit against travel ban
7. N. Korea’s Kim visits key political school for party cadres on its 80th founding anniv.
8. Nat’l security adviser meets U.S. under secretary of state for talks on security
9. Experts Warn North Korea’s Hostile Two-State Theory Risks Escalating Nuclear Threats
10. What to know about South Korea’s June 3 local elections
11. Mass livestock deaths at Kim Jong Un’s model farm trigger political crisis in Kangwon province
12. North Korea uses Russia’s Victory Day to push war readiness doctrine
13. North Korea makes parents pay to feed students forced into rice planting labor
14. Cabinet passes bill to strengthen self-reliance of semiconductors in defense systems
15. Kim Jong Un denounces elites’ love of ‘corrupt wealth’ in speech to cadres\
16. Belarusian autocrat Lukashenko says Kim Jong Un is ‘not a dictator’
