7/12/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. U.S. and Iran Ramp Up Attacks in Fight Over Strait of Hormuz
2. Hard-Liners in Iran Want to Keep Fighting America
3. Trump’s Iran Blunder Shows Strategy Can Defeat Firepower
4. Aspiring to Regional Domination, Iran Is Ready to Escalate Over Hormuz
5. Survivors of Iranian attack that killed 6 U.S. troops say generals ignored warnings
6. Inside the Secret Factory That Supplies Ukraine’s War Drones
7. Wagner’s Remnants Are Running an Opioid Empire in the Center of Africa
8. How Putin Turned Japan Into a Den of Spies
9. The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI
10. A New Foe Has Emerged for Data Centers: Farmers
11. An Elvis dummy and a Gulfstream jet: Fat Leonard reveals how he fled the U.S.
12. The Age of Reading Is Over
13. Voice of America’s exiled journalists find meaning in work outside the newsroom
14. New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists
15. CIA Officers Can Sense the Threat Within
16. Epistemic Delegation: Private AI Firms, Operational Knowledge, and the Future of Security Cooperation
17. This is Feynman’s Thinking Habit. It Made Him a Genius

Korean News:

1. S. Korea, U.S. hold 1st joint tabletop exercise to counter wartime disinformation
2. Military targeted in nearly 19,000 cyberattack attempts in 2025: lawmaker
3. U.S. Pacific Fleet vice admiral says ‘extremely pleased’ with S. Korean Navy’s RIMPAC performance
4. Relocation of Gwangju military airport speeds up for chip cluster
5. U.S. Navy Eyes South Korean Yards for Tankers and Destroyers
6. North Korea orders surprise inspections of civilian militias
7. North Korea Empowers ‘General Reconnaissance Bureau’: Escalation in Cyber Warfare?
8. North Korea says denuclearization should apply to U.S., allies before Pyongyang
9. South Korean shipbuilders race for floating data centers
10. Lutnick urges Samsung, SK Hynix to expand U.S. chip output
11. New tag rule tightens grip on N. Korea markets
12. Fruit and vegetables fill North Korea’s markets as prices climb
13. A firsthand look at ‘Mongtan New City’ (Korea and Mongolia)
14. PPP ramps up pressure on defense minister over military service desertion allegations