8/20/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.20.2026 at 09:42pm
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National Security News:
1. Exclusive | New Drone Unit to Be Phased Out as Hegseth’s Army Pick Makes His Mark
2. Marketplace Unconventional Warfare
3. The Top 10 Ways Trump Has Made America Weaker
4. Taiwan Floats Record Defense Budget, Sending Message to U.S. and China
5. Dwindling Patriot Supplies Leave Kyiv in the Line of Fire
6. How AI Could Hollow Out the U.S. Military
7. China’s Military Says AI Can’t Replace Commanders. Xi Is Testing That
8. The End of the American Middle East: Iran and the Last Gasp of a Failed Order
9. Iran eyes US military bases in Europe as targets if war ramps up, report says
10. US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Were Not Needed to Bomb Iran. They Were Needed to Blockade It.
11. Opinion | Iranians Admit Trump’s Blockade Is Working
12. U.S. conducting stealth operation to transport oil through Hormuz
13. Continental Shelf is Manila’s New Front in South China Sea Dispute
14. Estonian lawmaker calls US questionnaire to NATO ‘unnecessary stress test’
15. How US military funding propelled China’s robot dogs
16. US Army requests 133,000 GMLRS rockets by 2034
Korean News:
1. N. Korea fires barrage of short-range ballistic missiles toward East Sea: S. Korean military
2. Language of stigma and questions posed by the British ‘unite’
3. Korea still must outwork its rivals
4. Trump’s Order to Cut Military Exercises With South Korea Carries Risks, Experts Say
5. Exclusive | New Drone Unit to Be Phased Out as Hegseth’s Army Pick Makes His Mark
6. Can South Korea Still Count on the U.S.?
7. Trump claims he will meet with Kim Jong Un, North Korea has 57 nukes
8. South Korea estimates North Korea has up to 120 nuclear warheads, far above Trump’s figure
9. Don’t call it denuclearization if we’re learning to live with the bomb
10. Opinion | North Korea Is a U.S. Threat
11. Opinion | Pyongyang’s Threat Rises, With an Assist From Trump
12. Trump Wants a Summit That Kim Jong Un Doesn’t Need
