9/17/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
09.17.2026 at 05:26pm
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National Security News:
1. AI has transformed the Pentagon’s aging networks into a national security risk
2. Opinion | Can Military Morale Survive Smartphones?
3. How a fringe AI movement convinced Washington the end is near
4. ‘The US can’t lose’: Pentagon plows ahead on AI despite warnings
5. China would face a “hellscape” in a war over Taiwan
6. What Do Taiwan’s People Think About Its Annual Military Exercises?
7. Beijing hails Taiwanese scholar’s rare proposal on reunification
8. US military must adapt as formations will be ‘hunted’ by autonomous systems, Caine says
9. Top Trump military adviser says US must prepare to fight around moon
10. Iran’s Attempts to Get Around the Hormuz Blockade Are Hitting a Wall
11. Japan’s Natuna port proposal highlights Indonesia’s balancing act on China
12. ‘We simply want to help people’: Indonesia army chief on why it is building thousands of bridges, wells
13. Ahead of expected Trump-Xi summit, China’s defence chief calls for greater dialogue over AI, space and deep sea
14. Commentary: The main Trump-Xi summit achievement will be it happening at all
15. The Challenges of Finding Political Treasure in Chinese Overseas Ports
16. What Is 3D Printing Actually Good For? Keeping Old Equipment in the Fight and Small Drones in the Air
17. China’s Purges Are Working as Designed: A Unique Discipline System Has Helped the Party Endure
18. Cuba’s Point of No Return: The Country Is Collapsing Even as Its Regime Survives
19. The Warfighter-Cyborg Problem: How stacked wearable technologies may reshape identity, judgement, and battlefield ethics
20. Pentagon Math Over Physics
21. (Strait of Hormuz) War By Other Means
22. The Dangerous Ideology Behind the AI Warnings
23. The AI Doomers Have a Plan to Save Us. I Went to Find Out What It Is.
Korean News:
1. The continent’s big plan to take Eurasia: Where does South Korea stand?
2. Pentagon plans to exhume, identify Korean War remains in Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
3. Why South Korea is giving 51 million people unlimited AI
4. The Hidden Human Cost of Kim Jong-un’s New Power
5. Trump should meet Kim Jong Un and make a deal to end the Korean War
6. Trump may propose Kim summit after APEC, possibly in North Korea: former envoy
7. The UN Divide: How the two Koreas battled for decades over global legitimacy
8. North Korean defector recounts trafficking, sexual abuse in China in U.S. congressional hearing
9. No dialogue with N. Korea possible if denuclearization comes first: unification minister
10. South Korea-U.S. command outlines future all-domain warfare concept
11. Kim Yo Jong rejects IAEA calls for North Korea’s denuclearization
12. Hanwha spearheads S. Korea’s ground defense innovation with next-gen unmanned fleet
13. South Korea and Arctic Shipping: A Game Changer on Thin Ice?
14. Hanwha, Magnet Defense to start construction on new MUSV this fall, testing next year
