6/29/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.29.2026 at 04:56pm
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National Security News:
1. Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups (CIWAG) Report Maritime Symposium: Gathering Storms & Shifting Tides – Time to Write
2. Revolutionary Warfare in Three Visions
3. I spent my life fighting Russian spies. They haven’t been this reckless for years
4. U.S. and Iran Agree to Stop Fight Over the Strait of Hormuz
5. Opinion | Iran Is Winning the Battle of Hormuz
6. Iran Enjoys a Nuisance License
7. US Army gives chaplains 90 days to remove rank insignia
8. The Cutthroat Battle to Become America’s Rare-Earth Champion
9. Russians Feel the War’s Hardships as Ukraine Pummels Crimea
10. SOF Weekly Brief – June 29, 2026
11. The Art of Statecraft in an Age of Strategic Failure (Book Review by Frank Hoffman)
12. Epic Fury and the Strategic Failure Looming Behind the Tactical Success
13. The Defense Industrial Alliance Washington Is Throwing Away
14. NATO’s Critical Minerals Security Runs Through the Eastern Flank. Why Bucharest 9 Should Lead It
15. Protocol Insurgency: Winning the War of Conditions in the Digital Age
16. A New Force Posture Concept for Europeanizing Extended Nuclear Deterrence
17. Divergent Doctrines, Convergent Failure: France, Wagner, and the Limits of External Counterinsurgency in Mali
18. Why are Hong Kong, mainland universities rising in global rankings as US ones fall?
19. If you think China needs to dethrone U.S. dollar, you don’t understand how it is waging global currency war
Korean News:
1. Korea’s unfinished business: Washington must think beyond denuclearization
2. Why Seoul, United Nations Command see North Korea’s DMZ activities differently
3. North Korea condemns U.S.-Japan joint military drills
4. Talks with North Korea could restart fast after conditions shift: ex-Trump aide
5. US extends national emergency declaration over North Korea nuclear program
6. US, ROK and Japan call for crackdown on cybercrime funding North Korea nukes
7. Pork-Barrel Chips and an Inner-Party Civil War (South Korea)
8. S. Korea to build semiconductor cluster in southwest with 800 tln won in corporate investment
9. Defense chief vows to build strong military on anniv. of 2002 inter-Korean naval skirmish
10. Remains of 7 fallen soldiers from Korean War laid to rest in burial ceremonies
11. S. Korea says closely coordinates with U.S. after belated disclosure of N.K. missile launch
12. North Korea bans mobile phones for children under 14
13. Why North Korean leader Kim Jong Un never talks about his mother, Ko Yong Hui
14. ‘Hana Korea’ finds quiet resilience in N. Korean defector’s journey
15. Was the U.S. National Security staff right about Mao in 1972?
