8/11/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.11.2026 at 09:30pm
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National Security News:
1. Remarks by Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby at the Stratbase Institute in Manila, Philippines (As Prepared)
2. Hanwha Offers to Buy Builder of U.S. Navy Ships
3. Exclusive | U.S. Fires on Ship Breaking Its Blockade of Iran
4. Iran’s Mysterious Ruler Signals a Hard Line on Trump With New Leadership
5. One Microwave Burst, Dozens of Drones Down: Marines Fund Fiber-Optic Defeat System
6. Power Maximization in the Indo-Pacific: China’s Maritime Assertiveness in the South China Sea
7. The War of The Pen: What America’s State Department is Ignoring
8. Pentagon ties new casualty category for renewed US-Iran fighting to the end of ‘Operation Epic Fury’
9. Putting Armageddon on Autopilot: How Artificial Intelligence Could Make Nuclear Threats More Effective
10. The White House Is Right on AI. Now Let Defenders Use It.
11. China’s Hunger Games: How Beijing Turned its Food Insecurity Into Geopolitical Leverage
12. Painting Bullseyes: What Iran’s Attacks on US Bases Mean for the Indo-Pacific
13. This Castro Is a Key Envoy to Trump. Could He Be Cuba’s Next Leader?
14. The Limits, and Power, of Nonviolent Resistance
15. The Path to Development in a Post-Aid World: How Fragile States Can Fortify Themselves
16. How China Is Reordering Global Governance From Within
17. What America Learned About Democracy When It Gained Stealth
18. Winning the Cognitive Battlefield: A Bipartisan Imperative for the 21st Century
19. Will Taiwan Fight China? Just Ask Its People
Korean News:
1. Zelensky says Russia war is strengthening North Korea military
2. Zelensky says North Korean missiles used in deadly strikes overnight
3. S. Korea to upgrade key battle tank, anti-ship missile programs: arms agency
4. American and South Korean Troops Poised To Stage War Games Against a North Korean ‘Enemy’ Hardened by the Real War for Ukraine
5. Hanwha Offers to Buy Builder of U.S. Navy Ships
6. Remarks by Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby at the Stratbase Institute in Manila, Philippines (As Prepared)
7. One Microwave Burst, Dozens of Drones Down: Marines Fund Fiber-Optic Defeat System
8. Beyond the Peninsula: Forging a Multi-Domain United States-Republic of Korea Alliance for a New Era
9. Putting Armageddon on Autopilot: How Artificial Intelligence Could Make Nuclear Threats More Effective
10. Donju now run many of North Korea’s state grain shops
11. Sick and denied rest, detainees beaten in North Korean heat wave
12. North Korea prioritizes power for munitions factories amid heat wave
13. In Korea: upside-down flag, upside-down history
14. Bring them in, even by ‘bossam’: Korea’s pursuit of global talent
