7/18/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News:

1. The Invisible Campaign Against America’s AI Data Centers
2. How the U.S. Lost the World Cup—and Won Over the World
3. Taiwan Intensifies Resistance to PRC Political Warfare
4. The Propaganda Promise of AI
5. Iran’s Faked Military Triumphs: As the U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Collapses, Fake Iranian War Footage Stages a Comeback
6. Putin is fast losing the energy war against Ukraine
7. Trump’s War Won’t Go Away: Why has the fight over the Strait of Hormuz restarted? Can a permanent resolution be found? by Sir Lawrence Freedman
8. The AI disinformation gap the Pentagon may be missing
9. Trump’s speech claiming US election vulnerabilities, annotated
10. Russia’s Virtual Retreat in War Against Ukraine is Accelerating
11. Trump Faces the Limits of U.S. Firepower and the Lessons of Past Wars
12. Pentagon Dangles $400,000 Salaries to Recruit Wall Street Bankers
13. US military commits millions to 500-kW super laser weapon
14. Pentagon Says Drones Can Hide in Wind Farms, Freezing 155 Wind Projects
15. Satellite images show how Russia is winning the race for the Arctic as the US plays catch-up
16. Army to have its own tilt-rotor combat aircraft like the earlier V-22 Osprey
17. Early Warning on Flamethrowers (Terror Weapons) Appearing in Violent Extremist Arsenals in the U.S.

Korean News:

1. U.S. lawmaker proposes building most Navy ships in South Korea
2. South Korea to designate Dec. 3 as People’s Sovereignty Day
3. N. Korean FM visits Moscow, says Russian media
4. China’s top strategist tours DPRK’s Wonsan resort before returning to Beijing
5. Is South Korea Hostile to U.S. Businesses?
6. Editorial: U.S. Ambassador’s Unprecedented NSC Return Signals South Korea-U.S. Crisis
7. North Korea Denounces Trilateral Drill ‘Root of Destruction’
8. US can abandon North Korea’s denuclearization but make headway on nuclear freeze
9. Korea doesn’t bully just foreign companies
10. Kim Jong Un touts strategic treaty with China
11. Hanwha Philly Shipyard wins $2 billion U.S. missile defense vessel contract
12. Heritage Foundation executive backs shipbuilding partnership
13. Trump signals South Korea shipbuilding partnership