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9/13/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.13.2026 at 07:58pm
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National Security News:

1. Women Special Operations Veterans Remember Their Battles
2. Opinion | Condoleezza Rice: ‘Sept. 11 tested us, but it did not break us’
3. The Last Act of Agency: the story of the fourth plane could change how we talk about 9/11
4. Inside Hegseth’s push to showcase a dramatic Iran rescue on ‘60 Minutes’
5. Exclusive | Mark Carney’s Audacious Bid to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU
6. Canada and the EU is an alliance of weakness that will cost Carney
7. Exclusive | A U.S. Scholar Was Invited to China. Then He Vanished.
8. How Iran’s Hard-Liners Prevailed and Sabotaged U.S. Peace Deal
9. Philippines ramps up South China Sea rhetoric amid China-ASEAN talks, risks disrupting efforts to advance COC: expert
10. China’s Coercion Includes Interdicting Nearly 200 Ships In Philippine Sea, Study Says
11. The 3 Mistakes That Doomed the Department of Homeland Security
12. Opinion | Ukraine’s way of fighting war can’t match what’s coming
13. Preparing for war, US and allied chaplains train across faiths and under fire
14. Decades of delayed maintenance has left Pentagon networks in ‘potential peril’ for the AI age, cyber defense commander says: ‘no more.’
15. We Must Pace the Frontier (An AI Essay from Dario Amodei of Anthropic)
16. Anthropic’s Moral Conflict Is Playing Out in Real Time
17. Top A.I. Leaders Call for Slowing Down A.I. Development
18. Top AI leaders unite to warn the technology is advancing too fast
19. As Fears of A.I. Catastrophe Magnify, Washington Stirs, but Mostly Slumbers

 

Korean News:

1. Seeking a New Normal on the Korean Peninsula
2. Trump’s Two-Front Korea Gambit: A Signal To Kim, A Warning To Seoul – Analysis
3. N. Korean state media again silent on missile launches
4. Opinion | North Korea is backing Putin’s war at an unprecedented scale
5. S. Korea prevails in 264.1 bln-won investor-state dispute against Chinese investor
6. US alarmed as North Korea pays recruits $500 a month in Nigeria, South Africa, India and Iran to help fake workers get into American companies
7. UN, British King Congratulate North Korea on Foundation Day
8. Trump Presses, Lee Hesitates
9. [Wang Son-taek] The missing cause in the Hormuz debate
10. 1st U.S. investment project under tariff agreement nears deal but needs further negotiations: minister
11. What Role Does Denuclearization Have in North Korea-US Dialogue Today?
12. Korea’s nuclear-powered submarines could take on broader Indo-Pacific role
13. Allies set for high-level diplomatic, defense talks as security issues mount
14. [Fred Fleitz] How resolving Coupang issue can strengthen a wavering alliance

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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