6/19/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.19.2026 at 05:27pm
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National Security News:
1. Opinion | Trump Explains Why He Cut a Deal With Iran
2. Exclusive | Pentagon Tells Lawmakers It Needs $80 Billion for Iran War and Other Bills
3. Air Force Buys New Generation of Drones Made to Strike Deep Into Enemy Territory
4. Trump is taking a page out of China’s sovereign AI playbook
5. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
6. Irregular Warfare: Winning the Cognitive Domain
7. Taiwan’s Multidomain Cognitive War
8. Ukraine Bombards Moscow With One of the Biggest Drone Attacks of the War
9. Ukraine is shredding Russian supply lines. The US should pay attention
10. Train to Lie: Small-Unit Deception on a Transparent Battlefield
11. How CCP’s ‘peaceful reunification’ bodies push its line globally
12. Lawmakers Move to Replace MC-130s Lost in Iran Without Supplemental
13. ‘Game Changer’? Too Soon to Tell. But Ukraine Flexed in Striking Moscow.
14. How Trump’s unshackling of Ukraine could force Putin to talk peace
15. Iran’s Post-Khamenei Security State: The Emerging Challenge for U.S. Strategy
16. Cartels Thrive on Corruption, Not Just Drug Trafficking
17. Why India Will Stick with America
18. Systems Over Steel: How China is Redefining Amphibious Armor Survivability
19. When a Cease-Fire Is Really a Stalemate
20. Apache going down near Oman a sign of air combat evolution, analysts warn
21. Pentagon open to Poland’s offer to host permanent U.S. base, Polish minister says
22. Congress Questions Air Force’s Combat Rescue Readiness As HH-60W Helicopters Get Turned Into VIP Transports
23. ACCOUNTABILITY FOR A PROFESSIONAL MILITARY
Korean News:
1. When a mother’s prayer becomes a crime: North Korea and the first freedom
2. U.S.-Iran agreement and the Kim family regime: What will Kim exploit?
3. The case for a US Northeast Asia Command
4. South Korea’s Lee says Trump wants renewed focus on North Korea
5. Anthropic opens Seoul office amid U.S. AI restrictions
6. U.S. Blocks Foreign Access to Anthropic AI Over Suspected China-Linked Korean Telecom
7. Senate defense bill includes provision calling for quarterly Pentagon report on OPCON transfer
8. U.S. diplomat says N. Korea’s denuclearization ‘very high up’ on U.S. priority list
9. A Historic Summit between China and North Korea
10. Kim Yo Jong warns G7 ‘inviting disaster’ by calling for DPRK’s denuclearization
11. S. Korea conveys concern to China over N. Korea’s silence on denuclearization
12. Despite Trump’s overtures, U.S. Congress keeps Korea locked out of warship market
13. How Kim Jong-un recast North Korea after Hanoi summit collapse through fear, propaganda and Russia
14. Lee’s claim that South Korea’s military is the world’s fifth-strongest faces a reality check
15. 30 years after OECD: Time to move beyond Korea’s developmental state
16. New US envoy for complex alliance
