2/20/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
02.20.2026 at 03:33pm
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National Security News:
1. The U.S. Military Hardware Pouring Into the Middle East
2. Exclusive | Trump Weighs Initial Limited Strike to Force Iran Into Nuclear Deal
3. If Iran’s Regime Falls, Options to Replace It Are Narrow—and Risky
4. As Peace Talks Stall, Russia and Ukraine Share One Aim: Keep Trump Happy
5. How China’s Xi Purged His ‘Big Brother’ to Achieve Absolute Power
6. Opinion | The ‘Discombobulator’ arms race has begun
7. China, Afghanistan, and Critical Minerals: Options for U.S. Strategic Competition Below the Threshold of War
8. America’s most important Asian ally just got stronger
9. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
10. The Chalabi Syndrome: Why Washington Must Reject Reza Pahlavi’s Call for War
11. PLA, Chinese firm release satellite images showing US military build-up around Iran
12. China’s latest box office draw: spy thriller backed by state espionage agency
13. From Readiness to Resilience: Two Decades of Extreme Weather Impacts on US Military Infrastructure
14. Washington offers US$200 million to boost American smartphone industry in Indo-Pacific
15. Hegseth’s Firing Campaign Reaches Down Into the Ranks
16. The Institutional Battlefield: Why Irregular Warfare Must Contemplate Path Dependence
17. Iran and the Gulf: Why Hedging Is No Longer Enough
18. When GPS Goes Dark: Building a Force That Navigates from Orbit to Seabed
19. ‘The Intelligence Intellectuals’ Review: Brains, Cloak and Dagger
20. Three Short Tales on War Kori Schake Wants You to Read
21. Maneuver Under a Lying Sky: Russia Tests NATO on the Baltic-Nordic Front
22. When the Fiction Ends: Lessons from “Maneuver Under a Lying Sky”
23. The Battlefield Moved, Humans Didn’t: Why a 1930s Historian Still Understands Modern War Better Than We Do
24. The Taiwan 10 episode TV series Zero Day
Korean News:
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s Opening Address at Ninth Congress of WPK
2. THE DIRE TOLL OF NORTH KOREAN HUMAN TRAFFICKING
3. China applauds North Korea on party conclave in ‘new historical period’ of ties
4. S. Korea’s Yoon Prolongs Cycle of Convicted Presidents
5. Parliamentary subcommittee approves bill preventing presidential pardons for insurrection
6. N. Korea preparing for military parade involving 12,000 personnel: lawmaker
7. N. Korea’s party congress closely watched for message to U.S., new weapons
8. China, Russia send congratulations to N. Korea over party congress opening
9. Pyongyang holds public struggle session over South Korean content distribution
10.North Korea opens Ninth Party Congress with optimistic message on economy
11. Ukrainian national sentenced to prison for aiding North Korean IT workers
12. Ex-President Yoon apologizes for suffering caused by martial law but defends his decree
13. U.S. says Yoon’s life sentence matter for S. Korea’s judicial system, reaffirms ‘ironclad’ alliance commitment
14. Senior U.S. diplomat cites Korea Zinc’s multibillion-dollar investment
15. Seoul ‘strongly protests’ Japan FM’s territorial claim to Dokdo, calls for retraction
