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9/27/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.27.2026 at 08:01pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Ex-CIA officer’s novel alleges grave dysfunction in deep-cover operations
2. ‘Things Will Never Be Chill Again’: The Doomers Who Shaped the AI Safety Freakout
3. Exclusive | Did Putin Really Think I Was a Spy?
4. Ukrainian boarding schools train teens to replace fallen fathers in war
5. The case for talking to China is not a case for détente
6. A World War II-Era Feud Is Threatening a Pivotal Alliance for Ukraine
7. Think tank with Trump administration ties calls for major US military pullback in Pacific
8. Examining think tank proposal that US cut and run in Asia-Pacific
9. Taiwan’s Han Kuang 42: Learning to fight after things go wrong
10. COMMENTARY: Havana Syndrome’s New Term Gives Rise to New Approaches
11. We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda. They did surprisingly well
12. Narrative Failure: Russia and the West have a Storytelling Problem
13. Building a multilateral cognitive warfare defense network: A collaborative framework for the United States, Japan, and Taiwan
14. JADO-Plus Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
15. U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
16. To deter China, we need a global alliance of democracies
17. What the White House Got Out of Xi’s Visit
18. As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
19. The Surprising Reasons China Is Skeptical of A.I. Safety Calls

 

Korean News:

1. North Korea Is Testing Swarm Attacks Mixing Drones and Missiles
2. Think tank with Trump administration ties calls for major US military pullback in Pacific
3. Examining think tank proposal that US cut and run in Asia-Pacific
4. Fault Lines — September 26, 2026 | Special Update
5. What Israel’s Rear-Area Wars Can Teach South Korea
6. The paradox of deterrence: Why peace strategy requires focused military
7. Number of S. Koreans with family in N. Korea down to less than 33,000
8. S. Korean military, U.N. Command conduct joint probe of DMZ blast site; further probe planned: JCS
9. S. Korea voices ‘strong regret’ over Ukraine’s denial of nondisclosure pact on N.K. POWs
10. POW transfer, DMZ blast complicate Lee’s peace initiative
11. Marine Corps commandant leaves for Philippines for talks on military, defense industry cooperation
12. Lee holds coffee meeting with reporters in Alaska en route to Seoul
13. U.S. Ambassador Michelle Steel’s Shih Tzu steals show during Chuseok greeting

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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