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6/27/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.27.2026 at 04:29pm
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National Security News:

1. Can the US military preserve decades of wartime experience?
2. Mideast Fighting Widens With Attacks on Bahrain, Hormuz Tanker
3. Ukrainian Strikes Turn Crimea From Prize Asset to Liability for Putin
4. Opinion | A Senate Advance on Cheaper Weapons
5. The Pentagon’s research infrastructure is ‘deteriorating,’ study finds
6. Replicating Ukraine’s drone success requires culture shift first
7. US Counterterrorism Aircraft Could Be Surprisingly Useful in a Taiwan War
8. US Navy’s repair gap could hand the Pacific war to China
9. China tests Scarborough as Manila casts beyond US for help
10. US shifts South China Sea reconnaissance towards drones and Philippines: think tank
11. Deal with Trump hands Iran economic lifeline as leaders eye postwar gains
12. China removes 6 generals from legislature as military anti-corruption drive continues
13. Would Claude Refuse an Illegal Military Order?
14. SBU Drones Strike Russian Oil Pumping Station Supplying Moscow
15. SOCOM presented its highest award to a Navy SEAL for the first time

 

Korean News:

1. Cha’s ‘Cold Peace’ Proposal Risks South Korea
2. China stresses dialogue after South Korea flags illegal fishing
3. Nearly 10 Chinese, Russian military aircraft briefly enter S. Korea’s air defense zone: JCS
4. North Korea received $25 million for Iran tunnel technology, ex-diplomat says
5. South Korean forum urges wider clearance of DMZ land mines
6. Japan’s defense chief in S. Korea for deeper defense ties
7. Seoul envoy says Korean War veterans’ sacrifices remain foundation of S. Korea-U.S. alliance
8. S. Korea to acquire 20,000 low-cost drones, fast-track ‘K-Lucas’ suicide drones
9. What Lee Jae Myung’s selective enlistment plan means for Korea’s shrinking military
10. Protests over ballot shortage continue for 23rd day
11. Japan’s Kishida says North Korea complicates nuclear disarmament
12. Lee sets 2030 goal to build Korean security-tech giants to match Palantir
13. Vice FM attends Pax Silica Summit in Washington, discusses AI, chip supply chains

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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