10/6/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. The Myth of Military Victory: The Dangerous Idea Driving Today’s Wars of Choice
2. Hegseth’s One Percent: A cult of military superiority over civilians is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous.
3. An Asymmetry of Existential Fear
4. Trump Approves Plan to Put Fort Hood Shooter to Death by Firing Squad
5. Oil Is Flowing From Hormuz Again—Just Not the Kind the World Needs Most
6. Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey’s new Pentagon roles raise ethics worries
7. From Iran to China: An Emerging Trans-Central Asian Corridor
8. First Release Of USAF’s New HACM Hypersonic Cruise Missile Has Happened Over Australian Range
9. Report on Narrative Strategy Symposium 2026
10. Trapped in a Kill Zone, a Ukrainian City Is Beginning to Starve
11. Beyond recognition: What Taiwan and its allies are building
12. America’s Defense Industrial Base Begins at the Mine
13. Hammers and Nails: Military Innovation as a Strategic Dead End
14. Iran Faces Severe Challenges to Rebuild Missile and Drone Production
15. Why Simply Reviving Plan Colombia Won’t Work
16. Logistics test: sustaining Northeast Asia trilateral deterrence
17. Opinion | We’ve left Iraq. But we haven’t learned its lessons.
18. Opinion | If You Want to Understand AI, Get a Dog
19. War Is Forcing the World to Reckon With Geography’s Power
20. Wearable counter‑drone tech enters frontline service across US, Ukraine and IDF
21. Project Meridian Final Report: An LLM forecasting experiment on the most expensive LLM query ever
22. Pete Hegseth Made Six Big Announcements. I Have Lots of Questions.
Korean News:
1. Resolving the Korea challenge at its source
2. Moon says Kim Jong Un’s unification abandonment exposes deeper weakness in N. Korean regime
3. Joseph: Korean unification should be treated as investment opportunity
4. Maxwell: S. Korea should prepare for unification while deterring N. Korean threats
5. Ex-USFK commander warns time-based OPCON transfer could weaken deterrence against N. Korea
6. Logistics test: sustaining Northeast Asia trilateral deterrence.
7. North Korea’s DMZ landmines sabotage the South’s peace push
8. N. Korea warns of ‘powerful counteraction’ if S. Korea intrudes ‘even a millimeter’ into its territory
9. Korean Dream festival in Seoul rallies citizens behind unification vision
10. S. Korean military says N. Korean mines in DMZ blast ‘planted’ south of border
11. [INTERVIEW] ‘China has never asked Seoul to choose a side between Beijing, Washington,’ envoy says
12. [COVER STORY] Ukraine’s apology over NK POWs falls short of Korea’s expectation: foreign minister
13. South Korean diplomacy: the wheels are coming off
14. Defector who facilitated remittances to North Korea acquitted in landmark case
15. US Lawsuits Against North Korea Expand Beyond Detentions to Overseas Activities
16. How North Korea turns job interviews into cyber traps
