1/29/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
01.29.2026 at 05:40pm
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National Security News:
1. Xi Jinping Is Stripping Down His Military Command and Starting Over
2. China targeting three U.S. ‘centers of gravity’
3. Pentagon urged to wage decision-based AI warfare
4. Talking or Fighting, All of Iran’s Options Are Bad
5. Field Observation: Succession Without Peers – What the removal of peer authority inside the PLA signals for succession
6. Middle East Scrambles to Find U.S., Iran a Diplomatic Off-Ramp
7. When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Dies Quietly
8. Pentagon Official Visits Japan as US Seeks More Defense Spending
9. US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT
10. Inside China’s plans for ‘national total war,’ according to the Pentagon
11. Army’s CamoGPT won’t be phased out as Pentagon embraces more commercial genAI products
12. Nuremberg’s Shadow: Accountability, Psychology, and Modern War
13. Exaggeration and Ignorance: The “Scramble for the Arctic”
14. Misdiagnosing Protest: How Counterinsurgency Logic Is Being Applied at Home
15. Is America’s Cyber Weakness Self-Inflicted?
16. Economic Statecraft Is Back. Is America Ready?
17. How Does Canada’s Military Fare Without the United States?
18. Wargames Keep Warning Us About Congested Logistics—It’s Time to Take Action
19. Taiwan, China react sharply differently to Japan’s Taiwan remarks
20. ‘Speed plus range’: 101st Airborne incorporates Marine Osprey into training to prep for Army’s future tilt-rotor aircraft
Korean News:
1. Unification ministry says DMZ access bills do not conflict with armistice
2. Hyundai Flags Challenges as Profit Slumps on Tariff Hit
3. CrowdStrike CEO Says North Korean Operatives Infiltrated US Companies Using AI-Generated Credentials — ‘Why Break In When You Can Just Log In?’
4. Pending legislation on DMZ access ‘completely at odds’ with armistice, UNC says
5. New rotational U.S. Stryker unit arrives in S. Korea
6. U.N. special rapporteur on N. Korean human rights to visit Seoul next week
7. Tatarstan rises as key horse supplier for Kim Jong Un and military brass
8. S. Korea, U.S. discuss joint fact sheet, visa cooperation
9. Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo vows talks with U.S. to resolve tariff issues
10. North Korean youth rebel against marriage interviews as housing crisis delays wedlock
11. North Korean officials flock to fortune tellers fearing Ninth Party Congress shake-up
12. From Digital Kleptocracy to Rogue Crypto-Superpower
13. No Kwang-chol’s Tap on Kim Ju-ae Breaches Taboo
14. Lee calls on workers to swiftly adapt to ‘unavoidable’ AI robotics era
15. North Korean Students Turn to Narcotics Amid Medicine Shortages
16. Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ cannot replace UN, says foreign minister
17. ED Law enforcement is not trade discrimination