6/5/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.05.2026 at 04:39pm
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National Security News:
1. Exclusive | Real-Time Satellite Intelligence Is Making Ukraine’s Drone Strikes Deadlier Than Ever
2. How the Strait of Hormuz standoff flipped the energy security debate
3. U.S. Officials Discuss Taking Financial Stakes in AI Industry
4. Sen. Kelly, back from Ukraine, sees good morale but problems due to US stockpile shortages
5. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
6. Why AUKUS Must Win the Information Contest in Southeast Asia
7. Book Review | Fire in the Jungle: A Study of One of America’s Most Successful Unconventional Warfare Campaigns
8. Chinese military team inspects Russian bases as Putin hails ‘natural allies’
9. China unveils world’s first superfast quantum memory, paving way for practical computing
10. The Pentagon is rewriting how it buys AI — control of the future of warfare
11. Is War with China Inevitable?
12. The missile gap problem: US Indo-Pacific deterrence under strain
13. How China Misperceives Itself: Beijing’s Blindspots Hinder Real Reform
14. Iran and the Hidden Cost of Wartime Access: America’s Empire of Bases Makes It Easier to Blunder Into War
15. Will China and the United States Pursue Strategic Stability?
16. After the Invasion: China Considers the Problem of Ruling Taiwan
17. Trump’s New Rules for Radicals
18. How the war on terror primed America for autocracy
19. Someone Finally Wants to Hire Philosophers
Korean News:
1. Please Support The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
2. [In-depth: Transfer of Wartime Operational Control 1] South Korea: “No Problem Even If Reclaimed Tomorrow”… Washington: “Transfer is Condition-Based” (PART 1)
3. [In-depth: Transfer of Wartime Operational Control 2] “U.S. Controls the Korean Military” is a Misunderstanding… The Issue is Command Structure, Not Sovereignty (PART 2)
4. [In-depth: Transfer of Wartime Operational Control 3] Controversy over transfer amid North Korea’s nuclear advancement… U.S. experts: “Deterrence, reinforcement, and nuclear coordination are key” (PART 3)
5. Wu’er Kaixi warns South Koreans on North Korea
6. South Korea turns the tables on its submarine teacher, Germany
7. Why Xi Jinping Is Going to North Korea to Court Kim Jong-un
8. Xi to visit North Korea, showing China’s importance to a nuclear-armed neighbor
9. Why North Korea issues played second fiddle to South Korea at Shangri-La
10. Otto Warmbier’s parents seek $17M seized from North Korea-linked nuclear network
11. Michelle Steel clears Senate panel for Seoul envoy post vacant for 1.5 years
12. U.S. open to dialogue with N. Korea, committed to complete denuclearization: State Dept.
13. S. Korea expects China to play ‘constructive’ role over Xi’s visit to N. Korea | Yonhap News Agency
14. S. Korea maintains goal of building nuclear-powered submarines at home: official
15. Lee calls joint Korean War remains repatriation ‘testament’ to S. Korea-U.S. alliance
