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9/29/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.29.2026 at 03:52pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. The New Forever War: Why America and Iran Fight On Without Victory

2. Withdraw from the first island chain? Reinforce the wall of Asia Pacific democracies from Korea to Australia instead.

3. It’s the end of the world – and I don’t feel fine

4. Opinion | Iran destroys a fundamental U.S. military assumption

5. When America walks away – For decades America has enjoyed hegemony over the Middle East. That is about to end

6. What Xi Actually Thinks of Trump – China’s president has likely concluded that the U.S. under Trump has lost its way.

7. Trump: I would not have freed RAF terror suspects

8. The Manhattan Project Mindset: How Nuclear Analogies Are Steering AI Policy Off Course

9. The Discipline of Refusal: Constitutional Concerns About Lawful Orders in the U.S. Military

10.Is Iran’s War Coming to the West?

11. AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care

12. U.S. Marines were wounded in Iranian attack on nonmilitary vessel

13. To Fight Tonight, We Must Survive Tonight

14. Claude for Clausewitz?

15. Opinion | Socrates Would Thrive in the Age of AI

16. Opinion | Trump and Chinese Circumstance

17. Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees

18. Evolving Mexican Cartel C-UAS Capabilities

19. Al-Qaeda Twenty-Five Years After 9/11: A Changing Network, a Changing Security Challenge

20. The Trump Corollary’s Haiti Test

21. Plugging the PRC’s Southeast Asian Semiconductor Pipeline

 

 

 

Korean News:

1. A dictator uses a dictionary and totalitarianism erases human thought

2. Withdraw from the first island chain? Reinforce the wall of Asia Pacific democracies from Korea to Australia instead.

3. Opinion | Iran destroys a fundamental U.S. military assumption

4. A Growing North Korea Problem

5. S. Korean military finds 1 N. Korean mine near site of DMZ blast

6. Lee Asks Trump to Help Revive North Korea Talks During New York Trip

7. How Ukraine angered South Korea — and why it matters

8. South Korean Submarines Could Save Australia From the AUKUS Shambles

9. Rights chief calls for support for North Korean POWs in South Korea

10. Senior N.K. diplomat says Pyongyang’s nuclear status can never be reversed ‘in any circumstances’

11. DMZ mine blast puts Seoul’s NK outreach at risk

12. N. Korea runs alleged secret prison at Beijing embassy: report

13. ‘The Assassin(s)’ producers face probe over depiction of Park Chung-hee plotting wife’s death

14. A Trump-Kim deal could leave South Korea bearing the nuclear threat

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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