6/23/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.23.2026 at 04:33pm
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National Security News:
1. ANNOUNCEMENT OF IRREGULAR WARFARE AND COMPETITION SPECIALTY TRAINING (USMC)
2. The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
3. Keith Kellogg tells Iranian dissidents the ‘window is open’ to force regime change in Tehran
4. Beware Of Anyone Who Says, “I was with SOF”
5 . Drones Are Not the Future of War—They Are the Problem to Be Solved
6. The Inevitability Trap: How Narrative Reframing of Destiny Shapes Cognitive Warfare in the Taiwan Strait
7. Opinion | China’s Ambitious AI Blueprint
8. China’s Latest Tool to Control a Disputed Atoll: a Strange Floating Platform
9. The Mirage of China’s Military Edge – Panic Is Misguided—and Counterproductive
10. Losing the War of the Future – How New Technologies Threaten America’s Military Advantage
11. Why “China First” Will Fail – The Limits and Lessons of a Transactional Foreign Policy
12. China is turning the waters east of Taiwan grey
13. U.S. Allows Iran to Sell Oil in Dollars for First Time in Decades
14. Opinion | Iran’s Regime Gets Its First Relief
15. Iran has humiliated America’s military
16. We Parsed Trump’s Shifting Rhetoric on the Iran War
17. The unlikely role of Operation Epic Fury in a Mississippi AI data center lawsuit
18. US Gives Philippines Underwater Vehicles as China Feud Persists
19. Australians Value China Ties Over US as Trump Confidence Slumps
20. OPINION: Ukraine Creates Multiple Risk Points Now for Putin
Korean News:
1. Kim Jong Un reaffirms North Korea nuclear buildup at party meeting
2. President Lee Jae Myung’s disapproval exceeds approval for first time
3. Former ministers criticize Seoul’s North Korea policy
4. U.S. Senate bill could open Navy work to South Korean shipbuilders
5. South Korea widens probe into local election ballot shortage
6. N. Korean UNESCO official’s online participation at Jeju Forum falls through
7. Ex-Pentagon official calls for greater strategic flexibility of USFK for deterrence in Indo-Pacific
8. S. Korea, Philippines hold joint committee on logistics, defense cooperation
9. S. Korea defends extended deterrence cooperation with U.S., urges China’s constructive role
10. PM calls for taking bilateral exchanges to next level in talks with China’s premier
11. Police to question U.S. professor this week over alleged defamation of Lee
12. Late Army officer killed in 1979 coup to be posthumously awarded top military honor
13. Starbucks Korea’s history lessons must begin with accountability
