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6/6/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.06.2026 at 04:16pm
In honor of today’s anniversary of D-Day please watch the following 15 minute video:
Operation Overlord: OSS and the Battle for France (80th Anniversary)

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Cognitive Warfare at the Crossroads: Defining and Developing Capabilities
2. Iran’s Resistance Units Strike Back Against Regime’s Execution Wave – OpEd
3. These LLMs are the best at resisting Russian propaganda
4. Irregular Warfare Is More Than Just SOF: The Need for Statutory Authority for Conventional Forces to Support IW Operations
5. The New Weapon Behind Ukraine’s Battlefield Success
6. Can the Pentagon’s New Innovation System Deliver?
7. Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Partners
8. Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That Made Me Better at Everything Else
9. Taiwan and Poland on the Frontline of Hybrid Conflict
10. PRC Cognitive Warfare Targets Japan’s Security Normalization
11. China’s Influence Machine Is No Longer Just Propaganda
12. New report shows misinformation is a threat to (US) election security
13. Why China Weaponized the Thucydides Trap
14. Pete Hegseth’s Missed Chance to Reassure – and Deter – on Taiwan
15. Mass Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Military Facilities in St. Petersburg
16. Iran Fired Drones Toward Strait of Hormuz With U.S. Shooting Down at Least 4, U.S. Military Says
17. CIA officer who had millions in gold bars accused of creating fake spy program

Korean News:

1. Lee vows stronger support for veterans in Memorial Day speech
2. Xi Jinping to Visit North Korea Amid Deepening Three-Way Alliance
3. US-China relations are driving South Korea’s distancing strategy
4. Nvidia CEO says robotics is S Korea’s next big sector, points to ‘some suprises’
5. Ask a North Korean: Do North Koreans read Shakespeare?
6. Kim inspects nuclear-capable 5,000-ton warship, one year after capsizing
7. U.S. approves potential sale of JDAM precision bombs to S. Korea
8. Protest against ballot paper shortages enters 2nd day, demanding new election
9. Korean Bar Association faults ballot shortage, urges probe into voting rights harm
10. U.S. highlights Trump, Xi’s shared goal of denuclearizing N. Korea ahead of Xi’s Pyongyang trip
11. Xi’s planned N.K. trip partly driven by desire to weaken Russia-N.K. ties, U.S. calls for Chinese cooperation: expert
12. Navies of S. Korea, Canada hold joint drill
13. Why Canada is strengthening ties with Seoul against North Korean threats

About The Author

  • Dave 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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