8/22/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.22.2026 at 10:17pm
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National Security News:
1. Exclusive | Army Secretary Expected to Step Down by Year’s End
2. Paper: US Army Must Learn from Russia-Ukraine War
3. Special ops general says autonomous systems are key to countering ‘gray-zone’ tactics
4. Kinmen: The Sleepy Fishing Island That Could Be East Asia’s Biggest Flashpoint
5. US Reaper drones near end of the line in a new war era
6. TikTok, ByteDance agree to US$400 million settlement with US over children’s privacy suit
7. The Unforced Errors of Strategic Competition
8. The Fall of Russia’s Only Antiwar Party Has Exposed Putin’s Vulnerability
9. Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
10. US Navy aircraft transits Taiwan Strait before planned Xi-Trump meeting
11. China Isn’t Winning the Digital Order – Yet
12. How Taiwan’s Elite Military Police Plan to Defend Taipei
13. This Is The New Blackbeard ‘Cheap’ Hypersonic Weapon
14. Building the Army’s Human Advantage: A Vision of Readiness for the Future of Autonomous Warfare
15. Why America is running out of missiles
16. Why Iran has not folded yet
17. Trump is Combining Geoeconomic and Kinetic Warfare Against Iran
18. See How China Weathered the Iran Oil Shock
19. Iran’s Top Politicians Urge an End to the War
20. Who Benefits From Keeping America Confused?
21. What’s in a name? Why naming storms, military operations and medical maladies matters
22. remarkable line of zeros – debt and interest we will all pay
Korean News:
1. The Hidden Famine: What I Saw in North Korea’s Darkest Years
2. South Korea Is an Indispensable Ally
3. Why Chinese foreign minister’s trip to South Korea ‘dealt a low blow’ to Seoul
4. North Korea-Focused Film Fund Bearing North Launches With ‘School for Defectors’ (EXCLUSIVE)
5. Blacklisted Chinese firm CGN runs power stations in South Korea
6. China offers no criticism after latest North Korea missile launch
7. South Korea minister urges debate on using ‘Joseon’ for North Korea
8. South Korea to launch first Arctic container route trial Saturday
9. Kim Jong-un balks at grasping fleeting opportunity
10. Trump’s North Korea gambit is really about everyone else
11. It’s Time to Reengage North Korea
12. Trump is blinded by his personal relationship with Kim Jong Un
13. North Korea Is Learning Modern Warfare in Russia, Bringing the Lessons Back to Asia
14. Before Trump Meets Kim Jong Un Again, Five Things Must Happen First
15. Russia Deploys North Korean Ballistic Missile Launchers in Voronezh, Putting 7 Ukrainian Regions at Risk
16. Expert: S. Korea, U.S. need to address fallout from Trump’s exercise reduction for ‘productive’ engagement with Kim
17. N. Korea denounces Japan’s record defense budget as ‘war preparation’
