4/7/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
04.07.2026 at 06:55pm
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National Security News:
1. Allies Fear They Are Tied to an Erratic U.S. and Now Have Nowhere to Turn
2. How A Dusty Strip Deep In Iran Can Be Turned Into A U.S. Special Operations Base In Hours
3. So, While You Still Have CSAR in Your Scan
4. Now We Know What a Modern War Looks Like
5. How lessons from Iran war could shape mainland China’s calculus on Taiwan
6. What is the US telling Pacific allies by moving missiles to use in the Iran war?
7. Opinion | The Cartoonist vs. the General
8. A $500 Drone Can Destroy a $5 Million Leopard 2 Tank — Ukraine Proved That the Era of the Standalone Main Battle Tank Is Over
9. Ukraine’s Lesson for Trump: Military Dominance Opens Waterways
10. Downed F-15 backseater waved his stars and stripes boxers to signal his rescuers
11. How China Helped Iran Cushion the Blow of Sanctions and Fund Its War Machine
12. SOF Weekly Brief – April 6, 2026
13. From Shipyards Comes Seapower: Revitalizing Naval Shipbuilding
14. Transforming NCO Professional Military Education
15. The U.S. Military Can’t Reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Force, Can’t Afford a Ground War, and Can’t Wait Iran Out — Diplomacy Is the Only Path Left
16. Trump’s “Bridge and Power Day” is damning for America by Mick Ryan
17. Iran ends peace talks as women and children form HUMAN SHIELDS at energy sites after Trump threatened the ‘whole civilization will die tonight’
18. The UAV-Enabled Anti-Air Defense Campaign in the Third Gulf War
19. Iran’s Anti-Access and Area Denial Strategy Is Cruder Than China’s But Still Dangerous
20. Closing the Air and Missile Defense Gap in the Indo-Pacific
21. How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran
Korean News:
1. North Korea’s Surprise Offering to the South: Presidential Flattery
2. What’s behind sudden thaw as North, South Korea exchange warm words?
3. What is the US telling Pacific allies by moving missiles to use in the Iran war?
4. Seoul’s North Korea outreach is outpacing public consent
5. Seoul takes note of Trump’s remarks in Iran war: official
6. S. Korea secures 60 mln barrels of alternative oil supplies for May: officials
7. South Korea spy agency sees Middle East conflict easing
8. S. Korea sees N. Korea’s swift response to Lee’s regret over drone flights as ‘meaningful progress’
9. Lee’s voicing regret over drone flights into N. Korea shows his willingness to restore trust: top aide
10. N. Korean official says Kim Yo-jong’s statement on S. Korea is ‘clear warning’
11. Iran’s North Koreanization and President Lee Jae Myung’s Apology to North Korea
12. ‘Easter Miracle’: When reality outshines spy action films
13. Is Kim afraid of Trump? North Korea avoids US provocation, silent on Khamenei’s death
14. Is Kim Ju Ae really North Korea’s next leader?
