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5/8/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.08.2026 at 05:37pm
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National Security News:

1. Niall Ferguson: The Iran Stalemate
2. Inside the Digital Intifada
3. Propaganda war: The Gen Z team behind Iran’s hit anti-Trump videos
4. A Battle of Wits, Not Metal: How Irregular Warfare is Preempting Convergence in the Indo-Pacific
5. How America’s Adversaries Learned to Weaponize Reality
6. America’s Coming Population Crash—and China’s, with Nicholas Eberstadt
7. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
8. Inside ‘Project Freedom,’ Trump’s Aborted Bid to Reopen the Persian Gulf
9. U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump’s Hormuz blockade for months
10. How Anthropic’s Mythos Threw the White House AI Strategy Into Chaos
11. Philip Caputo, Who Wrote Blistering Vietnam War Memoir, Dies at 84
12. Subnational Diplomacy in a Fragmenting World
13. Davos, Munich, Nashville: Taking the National Security Conversation Beyond the Beltway
14. Why China Waits:  Beijing Is Playing a Long Game on Taiwan
15. Nation-Building and Imperialism: Education as a Tool of the Centralized State
16. Why Japan and South Korea Won’t Go Nuclear
17. China’s Manus block a show of strength ahead of Xi-Trump summit
18. The Gulf Is Still America’s to Lose
19. The Fight Before the Fight: The Painful Work of Uncoiling Divisions for Large-Scale Combat Operations
20. As Adversaries Integrate, U.S. Partners Bypass Washington
21. Could Russia Follow the “Hormuz Playbook” in the Baltic and Black Seas?

Korean News:

1. Book review: ‘Privileged but Powerless’ by Jieun Baek
2. North Korea’s New Nuclear-Capable Warship Poses Fresh Threat to South Korea, U.S.
3. Nation-Building and Imperialism: Education as a Tool of the Centralized State
4. Why Japan and South Korea Won’t Go Nuclear
5. North Korea says it will deploy new nuclear-armed warship in ‘mid-June’
6. North Korea to deploy new long-range artillery near border
7. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Major Munitions Industry Enterprise
8. NIS, Army partner to bolster S. Korea’s drone security capabilities
9. Ruling party fails to push through constitutional amendment bill amid opposition boycott
10. 4th S. Korean oil tanker successfully transits through Red Sea
11. S. Korea holds evacuation drill simulating political unrest in Georgia
12. S. Korea not considering military logistics support pact with Japan: defense ministry
13. Trump could ask Xi for suggestions on engagement with Kim during upcoming summit: Campbell
14. Lee vows to build nation where state shares responsibility of parents
15. Korean firms unlikely to gain from ruling against Trump tariff
16. North Korean ‘K9-type’ howitzer poses new military threat to South

About The Author

  • David Maxwell

    David Maxwell is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel who has spent more than 30 years in the Asia Pacific region (primarily Korea, Japan, and the Philippines) as a practitioner, specializing in Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He is the Vice President of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines during the war on terrorism and is the former J5 and Chief of Staff of the Special Operations Command Korea, and G3 of the US Army Special Operations Command. Following retirement, he was the Associate Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the OSS Society, on the board of advisers of Spirit of America, and is the Editor-at-Large of Small Wars Journal.

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