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9/28/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.28.2026 at 06:40pm
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National Security News:

1. Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy: America and Its Allies Must Scale Together for a New Era of War
2. Defense Firms Are Rushing to Boost Missile Output. It’s Coming Too Late.
3. China Conducts Military Exercise in South China Sea After Confrontation at Disputed Shoal
4. Japan Is Giving the United States a Chance in Asia
5. Second Thomas Shoal stand-off sparks sharp exchange between US, China embassies
6. The US-China relationship has stabilised but on Beijing’s terms
7. Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
8. U.S. Says No Plans to Sell Weapons to China After Perdue Comments
9. The porcupine dilemma: why US-China diplomacy is about distance, not deals
10. See How the U.S. Is Attacking China’s Control of Critical Minerals
11. Carney Lays Out His Vision for Breaking Canada’s Reliance on U.S.
12. 3 top reasons Trump will face a stronger Xi Jinping at November Apec forum in China
13. Iran Is Pressed to Make Nuclear Concessions to Revive Peace Talks With U.S.
14. In the New World Taking Shape, We’re All on Our Own
15. Taipei: Before Beijing Can Govern
16. Speed to Fielding Is Not Speed to Combat Power
17. What We Know About the Possible Terror Plot Thwarted at a U.K. Air Base
18. Opinion | How to Put Time Back on the Clock in Iran By David H. Petraeus
19. The Next Little Green Man: AI, Ambiguity, and the Future of Strategic Surprise
20. OpenAI Agents Used Aggressive Techniques to Access U.N. Website
21. Chaplains and Commissars: An Analysis of the People’s Liberation Army’s Political Work System and the Will to Fight
22. The Architecture of Mind-War: Red Teaming the Cognitive Battlespace
23. Ireland is helping supply Russia’s war machine
24. Army special operations soldier dies during Nevada training event

Korean News:

1. 39% of South Koreans believe reunification with North is impossible: poll
2. Less than 40 pct of S. Koreans say unification with N. Korea necessary: poll
3. Will Donald Trump get to meet Kim Jong Un again?
4. ROK demands apology from Ukraine over North Korean POW transfer disclosure
5. ‘Korea’s demographic crisis rooted in changing family values’: Global Peace Foundation head
6. Defense minister vows ‘corresponding measures’ if NK land mine confirmed in DMZ blast
7. South Korea’s U.S. nuclear push advances, but contracts unclear
8. South Korea to invest $692M in AI disaster response by 2030
9. Soldiers’ statements point to possible unexploded wooden-box land mine in DMZ blast
10. Protect North Korean POWs and uncover truth about Russia deployment
11. Goal of denuclearized North Korea notably absent from US-China fact sheet
12. Lee’s approval rating rises for 2nd straight week to 37.9 pct: poll
13. Sculptures honoring N. Korean soldiers to be erected in Vietnam

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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