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6/10/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.10.2026 at 04:39pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Setting Out to Win: Why America Needs to Get Serious About Irregular Warfare
2. A Bed-ROC-k for Total Defense: Building a Practical Manual to Disrupt Hybrid Threats and Deter War
3. Apache Crew Rescued by Naval Drone off Coast of Oman
4. Stars and Signals: Why Operational Advantage from Satellites and Drones Decays Faster Than We Think
5. The World’s Great Powers Are Learning They Have Limits
6. U.S. Launches Strikes on Iran in Response to Downed Apache Helicopter
7. Taiwan Test-Fires U.S.-Supplied Missile Launcher Toward China
8. Exclusive | White House Reins In AI-Testing Unit as National-Security Concerns Grow
9. A Twist in Ukraine’s Drone Campaign Is ‘Really Hurting the Russians’
10. Report to Congress on Defense of Taiwan
11. Iran may drag out the crisis to humiliate the US as it did in ’79
12. The Invisible Hand Won’t Rebuild U.S. Shipyards
13. Everyone Is Suddenly Sure Ukraine Is Turning the War Around. The Map Tells a Hard Truth
14. The Taiwan crisis nobody is watching
15. U.S. Power Is Wrung Out: The war in Iran has depleted the Pentagon as China’s military buildup matures by Hal Brands
16. The Fault Lines in China’s Power: America Must Build—and Use—Leverage Against Beijing
17. Don’t Give Up on Global Order: America Depends on It—and Can Restore It
18. Dusting a Dirt Road: How The United States Can Break the Cycle of Failing Military Infrastructure
19. Long Night Over Hualien: The China Threat Through the Eyes of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples

Korean News:

1. Xi in Pyongyang: same bed, different dreams
2. Dangerous habit to label young dissenters as far right
3. Xi thanks Kim for ‘fruitful’ summit: KCNA
4. Summit shows China more focused on countering U.S. influence than curbing N.K. nukes: experts
5. Xi and Kim Agree to Strengthen ‘Strategic Relationship’ with Socialist Principles
6. North Korea’s New Friends
7. The Democratic Dilemma in South Korea’s Local Election Ballot Shortage
8. Lee apologizes after approval rating dips, vows to work harder
9. Lee calls for end to violence against police officers at protest over ballot shortages
10. Gov’t resumes awarding state honors to democracy martyrs after 4-year suspension
11. Patron problem: Kim Jong Un played Russia, rattled China and won
12. Military counterintelligence command to be dismantled over alleged role in martial law bid
13. One Korea group presses unification in U.S. tour
14. South Korea warned on fragmented air defenses
15. Unification advisory vice chief expects US-NK talks around US midterms
16. 2 Chinese nationals sentenced to prison for filming Busan naval base

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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