7/24/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
07.24.2026 at 03:59pm
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National Security News:
1. Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought
2. Why ‘The Odyssey’ still rings true for America’s combat veterans
3. Trump Is Losing Patience Over an Iran War With No Clear End in Sight
4. The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.
5. To Base or Not to Base: The Iran War Exposes Flaws of U.S. Basing in the Middle East by Elliott Abrams
6. Ukraine may already be winning World War III for an oblivious West
7. The Dangers of Unilateralism Abroad and Polarization at Home
8. Congress told U.S. ill-prepared for China’s ‘unrestricted warfare’
9. China This Week: Governance Signals That Matter
10. South China Sea: Beijing and Manila trade blame on second day of Scarborough Shoal clashes
11. Is China a Peaked Power? And So What If It Is?
12. Why a Chinese political scientist wants the public to take a test on foreign affairs
13. Ukraine war: inside the longstanding conflict between politicians and military commanders
14. One Operator Cannot Resist the Surveillance Economy: UTS and the Human Domain in Irregular Warfare
15. Addressing and Amending “Attritability” of Unmanned Vehicular Systems: Why Cost as a Strategy Undermines National Power
16. Algorithmic Giants, Ethical Infants: How Autonomous Mass Is Breaking the Clausewitzian Contract
17. Kurdish Underground Resistance and Civil Disobedience Against the Iranian Security State
18. Before a Cyber Force, Fix Cyber Governance
19. Iran and the New Rules of Global Power: The Making and Unmaking of American Dominance
20. America Still Has the Upper Hand Over China: Washington Can Win If It Works With Allies
Korean News:
1. Life in North Korea — the loyalty I mistook for foolishness
2. Is North Korean isolation over?
3. US, South Korea split on target date for wartime command transfer
4. For South Korea, U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Exposes a Double Standard
5. North Korea Sent Fourteen Thousand Troops and Mountains of Shells — One Analyst Says Neither Changed the War
6. Lee’s North Korea policy ‘reset’ waits on a Pyongyang that sees no need
7. N. Korea locks down villages near uranium plant over mystery illness
8. North Korea busts elite hacking ring inside its own banks
9. North Korean defectors begin receiving AI phone calls to monitor well-being
10. S. Korea seeks deeper regional partnerships at ASEAN meetings amid fragmented global order
11. N. Korea blasts S. Korea, U.S. for ‘abusing’ ASEAN meetings to pursue its denuclearization
12. Navy conducts 1st combat experiment with humanoid robot as helmsman
13. North Korea’s Nuclear Doctrine: Implications and Strategic Countermeasures for the US-ROK Alliance
14. North Korea’s Subdued Signaling Toward China During Treaty Anniversary
15. S. Korea, U.S. open shipbuilding partnership center to advance MASGA initiative
