8/25/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.25.2026 at 05:29pm
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National Security News:
1. Ukraine hands Britain ‘goldmine’ of battlefield intelligence
2. Ukraine’s Drone War Exposes An Uncomfortable Reliance On China
3. Nvidia Has Become a Banker to the AI Boom, Putting It on Dangerous Ground
4. One of Taiwan’s Biggest AI Winners Isn’t a Chip Maker
5. The Warnings That Came Before a War Now Reaching the Six-Month Mark
6. Flock Cameras Are Spreading Across America. The Backlash Is Growing Just as Fast.
7. Washington Is Creating Forever Enemies
8. Electrifying The Military – Could Batteries Replace Oil Soon?
9. Cognitive Warfare and the Brain-as-Battlespace: Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and the Emerging Domain of Neurostrategic Competition
10. Trump’s New Foreign Aid Plan Is a Handout to the Religious Right
11. Out of Ammo: A Two-Year Sprint to Rebuild the American Arsenal and Deter China
12. The Socrates Project: Assessment Redesign in the Age of AI
13. How Great Power Rivalry Is Reshaping UN Peacekeeping
14. Why Chinese media says US historians are giving ‘ammunition’ to separatists
15. One year in, America’s counter-drone task force still has ‘a ton of work to do’
16. Patria to join with Ukraine’s General Cherry to make drones in Finland
17. Maximum Pressure on Iran Will Fail
18. The New Right’s Grand Strategy After Trump – How Civilizationism Would Upend America’s Role in the World
19. Betting on Autonomous Aircraft
20. Russia’s Next Top General: Promotions in Russian Military Leadership
Korean News:
1. Pyongyang maneuvers amid Seoul’s complacency
2. Why was China’s response to North Korea’s latest missile launches so muted?
3. South Korea, U.S. top diplomats agree to coordinate on North Korea
4. New S. Korea trade chief vows all-out efforts to manage Seoul-Washington trade risks
5. N. Korea to send some 100 athletes to 2026 Asian Games
6. S. Korea, U.S. remain committed to N.K. denuclearization despite omission from call readouts: Seoul
7. Trump’s outreach to Kim signals pragmatic shift in nuclear policy: experts
8. Conservatives voice concern over Lee’s diplomacy amid growing security uncertainties
9. North Korea tears down South Korean churches, apartments at aborted nuclear site
10. Trump posts photos with Kim Jong-un on social media, omitting failed Hanoi summit
11. U.S. Amb. Steel meets Japanese envoy, stresses continued trilateral cooperation
12. Hanwha Aerospace to launch U.S. entity for LNG business
13. South Korea backs LS Cable’s U.S. subsea cable plant with $218 million
14. [COLUMN] Trump-Kim deal at South Korea’s expense?
