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6/30/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.30.2026 at 04:40pm
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National Security News:

1. Department of War Establishes New Defense Policy Board
2. Wall Street’s got China’s currency ambitions all wrong
3. The 2016 South China Sea Arbitration Award at 10: Its Lasting Significance
4. Chinese Spies, Smuggled Drugs Fuel Takaichi’s Security Push
5. Japan to rename air force in nod to growing space capabilities
6. To Compete in the Pacific, the US Needs to Move Past Zero-Sum Alignment
7. America Needs More Weapons. JPMorgan Wants to Add Its Firepower.
8. With America in Retreat, Europe Now Depends on Ukraine
9. Lost in Translation: How A Premier Chinese Think Tank Views U.S.-Chinese Competition
10. The Ukrainian Push for Long-Term Strategic Planning
11. ‘Subversive Carrots’ and China’s Economic Influence Over the World
12. In the U.S., the Ties Between Industry and Defense Go Back to the Country’s Founding
13. The Broken Nuclear Umbrella: What Comes After Extended Deterrence
14. The Good Neighbor: Building Trust in the Home Hemisphere and Winning the Geopolitical Game
15. The Strategic Importance of Supercritical CO2 and Next-Generation Power
16. The Aircraft Drone Danger
17. The Other Side of SOF Week: Where Veteran Entrepreneurs Build Their Next Mission
18. 250 Years of Power, and What America Forgot

Korean News:

1. Effective multilateralism needed at all levels for peace, unified Korea
2. Korean Dream as strategic agenda: the case for a new framework on the peninsula
3. South Korea sets first national standard for counter-drone systems
4. Progressives blame Yoon Suk Yeol for North Korea’s hostility. But the enmity goes back further.
5. The Broken Nuclear Umbrella: What Comes After Extended Deterrence
6. Inter-Korean Nuclear Talks Collapse Over Inspections (1990s)
7. S. Korean, Ukrainian FMs hold talks on bilateral ties, N. Korean POWs
8. South Korean president’s approval falls for sixth week
9. S. Korea postpones plan to launch solid-fuel space rocket over safety concerns
10. S. Korea’s Marine Corps participates in annual multinational exercise in Philippines
11. Japanese reporter says outside news blocked in North Korea
12. Defense minister backs push for unified military academy as fundamental reform for future
13. Ukrainian outlet’s critique exposes gaps in Korea’s counter-drone strategy

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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