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9/21/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.21.2026 at 06:54pm
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National Security News:

1. The End of American Exceptionalism? By Charles A. Kupchan
2. Zhu Feng: Unpacking “Constructive Strategic Stability”
3. Pete Hegseth declares war — on his own troops
4. One Issue That Could Upend Fragile U.S.-China Ties: Taiwan Arms
5. Analysts tip a stronger hand for China ahead of Xi-Trump summit in Washington
6. China Still Has What America Needs: The Trump-Xi Summit Gives Washington a Chance to Buy Time
7. Shrink the UN: The Next Secretary-General Must Get Back to Basics
8. ‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil?
9. What’s at stake when Xi and Trump meet in Washington
10. Welcome to the great AI freakout
11. Xi prepares China ‘for battle’ as expert warns of grave danger facing US ahead of DC summit
12. A Shortage of Oil Tankers Is Threatening to Keep Gas Prices High
13. Defense Industrial Mobilization Needs More than Startups and Drones
14. U.S. and China Discuss System to Warn of A.I. National Security Issues
15. No Ideology Required: Drones and the New Domestic Extremist Threat
16. Forging the Undersea Arsenal: How to Build the Autonomous Fleet the US Navy needs to Compete
17. The Empire Problem: Who Inherits Power When a Political Order Falls?
18. Is this how the world ends? Extinction scenarios are taking over the AI debate.
19. China confirms Xi to visit the US this week for Trump talks
20. Review: Shadows Over Kabul by Hamdullah Mohib and Tam Hussein
21. Only America Could Have Designed the Field Jacket
22. SOF Weekly Brief – Sep 21, 2026

 

Korean News:

1. S. Korea, U.S., Japan FMs set for talks in New York on economic, security ties
2. Seoul, Washington still in tough negotiations over investment projects ahead of parliamentary briefing
3. Tokyo, Seoul rescue 3 North Korean sailors after vessels sink off Japanese coast
4. South Korea ex-commanders jailed up to 18 years over martial law
5. Three South Korean soldiers injured in DMZ explosion
6. North Korea’s propagandists aren’t keeping up with societal changes, Kim says
7. S. Korea, U.S., Japan hold consultations over N. Korea’s latest missile launches
8. K-Defense: War-Sustaining Capabilities Over Weapons
9. A grand bargain for Korean neutrality
10. Unification minister calls for fresh start in dialogue with N. Korea during meeting with ex-U.S. envoy
11. Close gaps in Korea-US relations
12. Lee to embark on trip to U.N. General Assembly, state visit to Mexico this week
13. N. Korea denounces sanctions report as ‘illegal,’ calls overseas labor ‘legitimate’
14. Audit finds military helicopter mistakenly entered DMZ during wildfire operation
15. Moon says South Korea’s birth crisis goes beyond economics
16. U.S. Ambassador Steel Hosts Dinner on Investments, Hormuz Deployment

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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