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6/11/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.11.2026 at 04:20pm

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National Security News:

1. How the Iran war could drive conflicts in countries thousands of miles away
2. Political Violence in Democracies Just Makes Things Worse
3. Former Sailor Accused in ISIS Plot to Attack Special Forces
4. Major Russian Refinery Burns After Drone Strike as Explosions Reported Across Crimea
5. Trump Says U.S. Will Launch New Attacks on Iran
6. Opinion | Trump Needs a New Iran Strategy
7. EXCLUSIVE: The Iran War Critic Under Investigation by the Trump Administration
8. The War in Ukraine Has Now Gone On Longer Than World War I
9. BEYOND THE MATRIX: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY BLUEPRINT FOR MILITARY TRANSFORMATION
10. FBI disables 13 Chinese suspected spying websites targeting US officials
11. What to Know About Drone-Boat Maker Behind Iran Helicopter Crew Rescue
12. Exporting U.S. Military AI Won’t Be Easy
13. China Is Propping Up the World Economy by Importing a Lot Less Oil
14. The Performative Myth: Why the Call for a Warrior Ethos is a Structural Category Error
15. Guerrillas With FPV Drones: Ukrainian Battlefield Lessons for Kurdish Warfare
16. Why It’s Nearly Impossible to Build a Robot Without China
17. SOCOM seeks ‘self-service’ synthetic data generation platform to boost drones’ computer vision
18. Airpower, Landpower, Seapower – What Wins Wars
19. Hidden Costs of Precision: What Drone Strikes Actually Do to Civilians
20. The Chain of Peace: Do Supply Chain Chokepoints Deter War?
21. The Maritime Action Plan Needs a Yardstick: Enter the Mahan Ratio
22. War in Iran showcases Pentagon’s break from public affairs norms

Korean News:

1. S. Korea, U.S. reaffirm goal of N.K. denuclearization at key nuclear deterrence meeting
2. U.S., Japan reaffirm commitment to N. Korea’s ‘complete denuclearization’ in defense talks
3. Lee says depending on U.S. for defense no longer valid, will boost economic ties
4. Was Xi’s stance on China-North Korea military ties also a message for US, Russia?
5. Lee’s peace policy can improve N. Korea’s human rights conditions: unification ministry
6. Jeju’s aid shipment to North Korea puts a shadowy broker back in the spotlight
7. Defense Ministry considers ways to enable troops to challenge unlawful orders
8. Why the real focus of Xi’s state visit to North Korea was Taiwan, not Russia
9. Nat’l Assembly begins procedure for potential probe on election ballot shortage
10. Why Xi Jinping wants closer military ties with North Korea
11. South Korea Fines Coupang $410 Million Over Data-Law Breaches
12. Exclusive | North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Capacity Could Soon Expand by 75%, Analysis Says
13. ‘It’s about democracy, suffrage, sovereignty of people’
14. U.S. air base in Gunsan raided over alleged fraud by local employee
15. North Korea bans border gatherings, criminalizes talk of South Korea
16. Stop watching Kim Ju Ae and start watching North Korea-China ties
17. One year of Lee Jae-myung’s North Korea policy: real gains, serious gaps
18. The unexpected Korean phenomenon

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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