11/15/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News:

1. Pentagon prepares its own prosecution of general accused of leaking
2. The civilian office overseeing special operations forces could get $45 million budget, 100 staffers
3. Ukraine Diplomacy, Huge Russian Battlefield Losses and China’s Quiet Rehearsal for Isolating Taiwan. Weekly Update & Big Five, 15 November.
4. How Jensen Huang Built the Backdoor Route That Keeps Beijing in the AI Race
5. U.S. Figures Iran Still Has up to 2,500 Missiles, Countering Trump Assertions
6. He Was China’s Man in Panama. Then He Became a Wanted Man.
7. Trump scales back public appearances after CIA and Mossad intercept plans for Iranian drone attack… as the line of succession is shuffled away to secure locations
8. World leaders are coming to Shenzhen. What is China’s APEC message?
9. Iranian regime will ‘return and metastasize’ as long as it survives, Israeli official tells JNS
10. Congress Can Do More to Defend U.S. Alliances
11. ‘Double standard’: why Jensen Huang saga sparked a debate about race for Asian-Americans
12. Another international alliance withering under Trump: The Quad
13. Trump, other Quad leaders to meet in Manila on Nov 17, sources say
14. Philippines, Australia sign updated defence agreement
15. China Poached This Top Harvard Professor. Now He Wants Others to Join Him.
16. Are the United States and Its Allies Learning Quickly Enough from the War in Ukraine? Report by LTG Curtis Buzzard
17. Europe Besieged by Acts of Gray Zone and Hybrid Tactics from Multiple Vectors – The Soufan Center
18. Defending the defense secretary: Hegseth under fire
19. I’m a Progressive Internationalist, Not a ‘Liberal Hawk’ by Michael McFaul
20. NEW: Dr. Scott W. Harold Named Director of CNAS Indo-Pacific Security Program

Korean News:

1. OPCON Transition’s Political Shift Raises U.S. Alliance Weakening Fears
2. Former US Commander Slams South Korea’s OPCON Transfer Rush
3. ED Specter of another Yalta overstated (Korea)
4. Editorial: First U.S.-China-Russia Summit: North Korea Alliances vs. South Korea Communication
5. Minister Chung Dong-young Expected to Untie the Knot He Tied
6. N. Korea-linked hackers target 30 S. Korean servers: report
7. South Korea’s Options in a Fragmented World
8. N. Korean leader’s close aide visits Russia amid deepening bilateral ties
9. The Korea-U.S. alliance is not a burden
10. North’s Kim may skip APEC, but his shadow looms large over summit
11. South Korea faces limits on choosing $350B U.S. investments
12. Three IT workers sent home from China as suspected defectors
13. Meth-fueled knife fight in Hamhung shrugged off by police
14. Church, sex and ‘American Hagwon’