6/14/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.14.2026 at 05:18pm
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National Security News:
1. Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked
2. Germany and Japan Are Rearming Again, 80 Years After World War II
3. The Iranian Enforcer Driving Tehran’s Hard Bargaining With the U.S.
4. The Manufactured Myth of the Smith-Mundt “Firewall”
5. Amazon CEO’s Talks With U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models
6. Inside the Room Where America’s Brightest Game Out How to Avoid an AI Apocalypse
7. ‘The AI war has begun’: France and Europe worried as US blocks Anthropic’s latest AI model
8. Russia’s Irrecoverable Losses: Industrial Limits Threaten Its Future As A Strategic Power – Analysis
9. Taiwan launches website for Chinese nationals to report intelligence
10. U.S. Government Response to the UK Consultation “Growing up in the online world” – U.S. Embassy and Consulates in the United Kingdom
11. THAAD Failed Six Straight Tests In The 1990s — Now It’s Killing 90 Percent Of Iran’s Missiles, And America Is Running Out
12. The Iran War Is Prelude to the Fifth War
13. U.S. Poised to Lose Measles Elimination Status as Utah Outbreak Nears One-Year Mark
14. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans say memorial design is ‘disconnected from the experience’
15. Taiwan opposition leader seeks to ease Washington’s concerns over China stance during US trip
16. The AI threat we should actually be talking about
17. Two Chinas at North America’s World Cup
18. How China Is Using the Ukraine War to Set the Stage for Taiwan
19. Congress has lost its grip on funding the government
20. Opinion | Think you can see America’s future? Learn from Lewis and Clark.
Korean News:
1. At Vatican Mass, Lee urges ‘virtuous cycle’ linking Korean Peninsula peace to global solidarity, renewed dialogue between Seoul and Pyongyang
2. Lee says ember of hope for dialogue, cooperation with N. Korea still exists
3. North Korea turns on South Korea’s Lee after Seoul and the EU reject Pyongyang’s nuclear status, condemn military ties with Moscow
4. Defense chief to propose target year for wartime OPCON transfer to S. Korean, U.S. presidents at year-end
5. North Korea says nuclear status ‘irreversible’: State news agency
6. Why the changes to North Korea’s constitution should scare us all
7. President Lee Jae Myung Condemns Election Fraud Claims, Demands Probe
8. Assembly weighs NEC election commission, constitutional amendment
9. ‘Arms ablaze, they still charged’: Ukrainian forces stunned by North Korea’s ‘meat assaults’
9. Presidential office reaffirms N.K.’s denuclearization as int’l community’s ‘consistent goal’
10. Dangers of process-light diplomacy with North Korea
11. South Korea’s Diplomacy: No Second Ban Ki-moon
12. On this day in Korea – June 14, 2000: Historic inter-Korean summit takes place
