8/4/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.04.2026 at 08:12pm
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National Security News:
1. Nickel and DIMEd: Trading DIME’s “Participation Awards” for Mutually Reinforcing Capabilities
2. Iran Says No Talks With the U.S. on Hormuz Strait
3. Deep U.S. Ties With Taiwan Are Surviving Pressure From China—and Trump
4. Exclusive | Anduril Weighs Baltimore Shipyard Investment to Build Drone Boats
5. Former CENTCOM Deputy Robert Harward: Iran Is Playing For Time
6. Tiny militias threaten to draw Middle East into forever war
7. Donald Trump Just Got Handed a Way Out of the Iran War: Oman Has a Two-Route Plan for Hormuz and Tehran Actually Seems Interested
8. ‘Surprising’ how quickly China’s military is closing gap with US: analyst Lyle Goldstein
9. China’s Unrestricted Warfare: The CCP’s Blueprint for Victory Without Fighting – The American Spectator
10. China’s Quiet Quest to Dominate Latin America
11. Why Have China and Russia Just Stepped Out Of The Shadows In The U.S.-Iran War?
12. Lessons Encountered from Ukraine
13. The Long Way Home: Moral Injury and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
14. It Is Banal, Bland, Thin and Didactic. We Can’t Stop Talking About It.
15. The New Forever Wars: How America Gets Stuck in Its Allies’ Fights
16. The War China Might Choose: A New Taiwan Option
17. An Approach to the Next US Africa Command Theater Strategy
18. How China’s US$900 million port deal in Angola shows its dominance over US interests
19. Is Washington Rewriting the North American Trade Agreement Around China?
Korean News:
1. New U.S. Ambassador Steel meets S. Korea FM Cho, submits credentials
2. North Korea condemns RIMPAC naval exercise as ‘war rehearsal’
3. S. Korea ‘strongly’ protests Japan’s renewed claim to Dokdo, urging ‘immediate withdrawal’
4. World noticed Korea’s chip schools before Korea did
5. From a provincial lab, a Korean reach for a science Nobel Prize
6. Russian military help could strengthen North Korean forces over time: Japan
7. South Korea launches three military security organizations
8. North Korea says US-led cyber threat warnings are bid to smear its image
9. North Korea advises citizens to eat dog meat to beat the summer heat
10. North Korea isn’t building a military line. It’s building a new Berlin Wall
11. Former U.S. envoy urges U.S. to ease N.K. travel ban, citing its impact on aid workers
12. High uranium level found in Incheon island water, but not likely linked to N. Korea plant
13. Army nearly downed military drone during flight test: lawmaker
14. Military counterintelligence command reform takes shape
15. Military seeks closer coordination with US forces after drone misidentification
