4/3/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
04.03.2026 at 03:54pm
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National Security News:
1. Hegseth Removes Army Chief in Latest Purge of Military’s Top Ranks
2. Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders
3. Hegseth forces out Army’s top general, two other senior officers
4. Kellogg Calls NATO ‘Cowards,’ Proposes New Alliance Including Ukraine
5. Control Over Strait of Hormuz Will Determine Who Wins the War
6. Iran Beefs Up Defenses, Recruits Children as It Prepares for Ground War
7. U.S. Repatriates Chinese Drug Fugitive in a Sign of Stabilizing Ties
8. Joint Interagency Task Force 401 Enhances Counter-UAS Capability to Protect the Southern Border
9. Hegseth Authorizes Off-Duty Service Members to Carry Private Firearms on Installations
10. A brief history of China’s X-point plans for the Middle East
11. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
12. The Iran war highlights the creeping use of AI in warfare
13. Cloud-Seeding a Revolution
14. AI, Warfare, and Augmented Cities
15. Beijing hails US cooperation as ICE returns suspected drug smuggler to China
16. Environment, Not the People: Rethinking Cognitive Vulnerability
17. The Limits of Trump’s Regime Capture Strategy from Venezuela to Cuba
18. How the War with Iran Ends
19. How Iran Should End the War
20. Commercial Pathways and Proxy Power: How Irregular Forces Acquire Advanced Capabilities How Irregular Forces Exploit Commercial Pathways for Advanced Weapons
21. How Ukraine’s defense industry innovates at the speed of modern war
Korean News:
1. How silence is made — at the border of culture and freedom
2. U.S.-Republic of Korea Public Diplomacy Dialogue Held in Seoul Media Note
3. Is South Korea About to Finally Get Full Control of Its Own Military?
4. Tightening pressure on Korea
5. Trump Criticizes South Korea Over Hormuz Warship Refusal
6. Trump Asks: Is South Korea-U.S. Alliance Free?
7. S. Korea, France agree to cooperate on safe passage through Strait of Hormuz
8. S. Korea to move up deployment of Iron Dome-like interceptor against N. Korean threats to 2029
9. N. Korea’s Kim visits museum of Combat Feats at Overseas Military Operations
10. North Korea threatens criminal punishment for diverting factory goods to informal markets
11. ROK police investigating if dead body that washed ashore came from North Korea
12. Air China’s Beijing-Pyongyang resumption stirs economic hopes inside North Korea
13. Russian businessman appears to play key role in North Korean labor schemes
14. Seoul must defend against North Korea ‘by our strength,’ Lee tells US senators
15. Thieves and Enemies: Korea’s Hesitation, China’s Clarity
16. At Camp Casey, US general commands troops on field named after Korean War hero great-uncle
