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9/3/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.03.2026 at 06:14pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

  1. The Case for a Stalemate With Iran – America Can Win If It Stays the Course
  2. Chinese Warships Are Cruising Too Close for Comfort Off Japan’s Shores
  3. Why Washington’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Against Iran Faces Steep Odds
  4. Hegseth Extends Mideast Deployments Into 2027, Escalating Strain on Troops
  5. What Germany and Israel Can Teach Japan and South Korea on Security Cooperation
  6. A Spiral of Escalation for Russia and Ukraine, With No End in Sight
  7. Pentagon cuts access to classified information amid Iran war concerns
  8. Trump calls Xi’s Washington visit ‘exciting’, but claims US leads China in AI race
  9. Trump encouraged Army secretary to stay in job
  10. Where Does AI Escalation Come From? We Don’t Know. We Should Find Out.
  11. The Trump Administration’s Pivot Away from the Indo-Pacific
  12. Russia’s Road to El Dorado
  13. Is Taiwanese Society Prepared for a China Contingency?
  14. he End of American Sanctuary – New Threats Demand a New Homeland Defense
  15. China’s pressure campaign against Japan is backfiring badly
  16. Iran war escalation raises concern over civilian death toll
  17. Artificial Intelligence and Human Endeavor in Counterterrorism: Complementarity, Limits, and the Future of Security
  18. The Gathering AI Storm and Challenge to Stability
  19. Opinion | Defunding the U.S. Military
  20. The New Jet-Powered Drones That Are Breeding Anxiety in Ukraine
  21. The US Arms Bottleneck Is Impacting Its East Asian Allies
  22. The Pentagon’s Public Disclosures Need a Mosaic Test
  23. Wisdom of dissent: What Washington’s ‘Orders Book’ teaches the ROK military

Korean News:

1. We all want peace in Korea – Why ending the Armistice could be a dangerous path to conflict

2. A 43-second window into North Korea’s sanctions loopholes

3. South Korea’s proposed $53.5 billion defense budget prioritizes taking wartime command from US

4. Why Washington’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Against Iran Faces Steep Odds

5. What Germany and Israel Can Teach Japan and South Korea on Security Cooperation

6. The US Arms Bottleneck Is Impacting Its East Asian Allies

7. Wisdom of dissent: What Washington’s ‘Orders Book’ teaches the ROK military

8. S. Korea FM Cho vows continued diplomatic efforts to revive N.K.-U.S. dialogue

9. N. Korea drops unification goal, cements Kim as sole leader in revised party charter

10. U.S. turns to South Korea to help close China’s shipbuilding gap

11. Why Washington keeps misreading NK

12. What Korea still owes its patriots of 1945

13. [COVER STORY] ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ issue could become another THAAD row: Chinese official

14. [EXCLUSIVE] China to withdraw from Gwangju Biennale in protest of Taiwan Pavilion

15. S. Korea says respects ‘One China’ policy amid Taiwan Pavilion dispute

16. Joint drills put the Korea-U.S. alliance to the test

17. Has North Korea Achieved Minimum Deterrence?

18. Senior military official calls for joint operational readiness in Indo-Pacific

About The Author

  • Dave Maxwell

    David Maxwell is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel who has spent more than 30 years in the Asia Pacific region (primarily Korea, Japan, and the Philippines) as a practitioner, specializing in Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He is the Vice President of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines during the war on terrorism and is the former J5 and Chief of Staff of the Special Operations Command Korea, and G3 of the US Army Special Operations Command. Following retirement, he was the Associate Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the OSS Society, on the board of advisers of Spirit of America, and is the Editor-at-Large of Small Wars Journal.

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