7/1/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
07.01.2026 at 04:43pm
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National Security News:
1. What is the Chinese military thinking about the Iran war?
2. Exclusive | Trump Briefed on All-Out War Options in Iran but Opts to Stick With Talks
3. Inside Intelligence Agencies, a Fight Over Building a Master List of Spies
4. An intelligence budget ‘super user’ job is now in the hands of Russ Vought
5. Putin Faces a Political Crisis as Fuel Shortages Ripple Through Russia
6. Exclusive | A Dispute Over Opening Hormuz Drives a Wedge Into U.S.-Saudi Relations
7. Anthropic Reaches Deal With Trump Administration to Restore Access to Fable AI Model
8. Anduril and Amazon’s mobile data center venture aims to bring edge computing to the frontlines
9. The US Army goes into the breach — without soldiers
10. SOCOM is seeking a long-range kamikaze drone
11. U.N. Staves Off Financial Collapse With Rule Change Around U.S. Nonpayment
12. The War Before the War Has Already Begun
13. US military deploys over 900 personnel to Venezuela for earthquake response
14. War As We Don’t Know It Today
15. Capability is Not Enough: Why Authority Decides Whether SOF Protect Critical Maritime Infrastructure
16. Of Blue and White’s Intelligence Warfare and MENA’s Crisis Profile
17. A Strategy for Winning the Cold War NSC-68 Essay by Mark Montgomery
18. Mapping America’s Domestic Drone Supply Chain
19. The Three Nevers: To Invade Taiwan, China Would Have to Make Military History Thrice
20. Supremacy, Superiority, Dominance: The Iran War and Our Obsolete Air-Control Lexicon
21. Worse Than an Axis: Why the Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries Is So Dangerous
22. Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Gulf’s Irregular Tomorrow
23. How Americans see their country’s past, present and future
24. The ‘deep state’ didn’t take down Nixon. But why did Vance say it did?
Korean News:
1. Worse Than an Axis: Why the Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries Is So Dangerous
2. S. Korea’s Lee vows continued efforts to replace inter-Korean armistice with peace regime
3. The end of denuclearization
4. Kim Jong Un vows stronger ties with China in letter to Xi
5. China And North Korea: A Complex But Unbreakable Anti-American Alliance – Analysis
6. Still ironclad? The US-South Korea alliance is not what it used to be.
7. Kim Jong Un orders work on at least 9 of his mansions in June: satellite imagery
8. Vassal no more: Kim Jong-un’s body language with Xi, Putin says he’s one of the big boys now
9. Seoul, Washington deepen cooperation on democracy, human rights issues
10. Lee, Moon agree on need to continue pursuing dialogue with North Korea
11. North Korean embassy in Beijing adds more photos of Kim’s daughter to display
12. Defense ministry reviews progress on conditions for OPCON transfer
13. Foreign minister says Korea-U.S. alliance will benefit from cooperation
14. Children of top Pyongyang scientists detained for reading banned novels
15. Seoul, Kyiv move closer to transferring North Korean POWs to South Korea
