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8/30/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.31.2026 at 12:14am
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National Security News:

  1. Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
  2. Putin Turns Again to China’s Xi as Russia’s Clout Crumbles
  3. Russia Is Bombarding Europe With a New Wave of ‘Gray Zone’ Attacks
  4. How the Iran war has made the US more vulnerable
  5. Exclusive | Inside Trump’s Plan to Give the Pentagon a Stake in Venezuela’s Oil Riches
  6. Accommodation: An underutilized strategy for great-power rivals
  7. The devastation of NSA Bahrain is a national security warning
  8. A Pacific conflict may not look like conventional war, SOCPAC commander says
  9. Opinion | Artificial Criticism of Artificial Intelligence?
  10. The Evolution of Chinese Economic Strategy Under Xi Jinping
  11. Pentagon’s NATO review preparing troop options for Hegseth by November 6
  12. Spying on US forces, weapons technology adds urgency to Japan’s intel overhaul
  13. US supports Taiwan’s presence at Pacific forum
  14. Taiwan’s Tzu Chi Foundation delivers medical aid to flood-hit Nepal
  15. China Rebuts Claims It Could Have Given Nepal Warning of Deadly Floods
  16. Minister Koo Reports to Legislature on Strengthening Morale and Psychological Resilience (Taiwan)
  17. Confusion Over Taiwan Drone Bill
  18. Lethal Minds Op Ed: You’re Going to Carry That Weight – The Missing GWOT Narrative

 

Korean News:

  1. A deal is not a strategy: the danger of accepting Kim Jong Un’s terms
  2. Ex-CFC deputy commander Kang Shin-chul named defense minister
  3. Pentagon’s NATO review preparing troop options for Hegseth by November 6
  4. Lee turns to a general for defense minister a year after nonofficer experiment
  5. Alliances are a muscle, not a memory
  6. Donald Trump’s awkward Korean love triangle
  7. ‘I met Kim Jong-un many times and saw how cruel and terrifying he can really be’
  8. The Gospel of the Great Leader
  9. Chung Dong-young’s 100,000-Fold Nuclear Claim Sparks Controversy
  10. North Korea defence minister dismissed: State media
  11. Lee nominates 6 ministers in major Cabinet reshuffle, including finance minister
  12. North Korea Reinstates Pak Jong-chon, Replaces Defense Minister
  13. President’s falling approval rating
  14. Second-term Cabinet must speak truth to a micromanaging president

About The Author

  • Dave 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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