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9/23/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.23.2026 at 07:35pm
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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Trump Threatens to Annihilate Iran as He Lays Out Foreign-Policy Vision at U.N.
2. Xi’s upcoming U.S. visit to chart course for bilateral ties
3. Hegseth announces new Pentagon battlefield test for promotions to general
4. The Stalemate With Iran Is Not Sustainable: A Diplomatic Strategy to End the War
5. How China’s Leader Plans to Win the Future With A.I.
6. Battle-tested Zelenskyy sounds chilling alarm on where Putin’s war could head next
7. Exclusive | Zelensky Asks Trump for Winter Arms Package, Expects Energy-Ceasefire Push
8. Trump cites military need for arch. He could be putting armed services in a bad spot.
9. Here’s What Trump’s Greenland Deal Means for the U.S.
10. Taiwan, human rights are ‘red lines’ for China, ambassador says ahead of Trump, Xi meeting
11. China hawks grumble over Trump’s lavish welcome planned for Xi state visit
12. Every American Aircraft Lost Or Damaged During The Iran War, Visualized
13. The Ukraine Laboratory: How a Full-Spectrum War Is Rewriting Modern Warfighting
14. Stepping On Legos: The All Too Familiar Pain of Being Behind the Curve in the Information Environment
15. Opinion | Trump’s U.N. Message to the World
16. The Drones of Bannockburn: A Fourteenth-Century Battle’s Bloody Lessons for Taiwan’s Defense
17. Europe Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way
18. American power, AI and a walkout – key moments from Trump’s UN speech

 

Korean News:

1. Noise of Piddington, velvet of Prague and Pyongyang’s ‘fake guards’
2. Eighty years, one road: a rubber empire
3. South Korea’s Lee presses for U.S.-North Korea talks at U.N.
4. Seoul Needs a Playbook for Hormuz, Ukraine, and What Comes Next
5. Trump, South Korea Want to Get Kim Jong Un Back to Negotiations
6. Why Trump-Xi summit must put Korean peninsula back on the agenda
7. North Korean defector issues stark warning about America ahead of Christian university’s anti-communism event
8.  Trump reaffirms commitment to dialogue with N. Korea during summit with Lee: Seoul
9. 2 explosions occurred in DMZ blast; forensic analysis on mine fragments under way: military
10. PM, top U.S. envoy discuss ways to strengthen S. Korea-U.S. alliance

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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